The Gresham Publishing Company. 



NEW EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY AUGMENTED. 



V1P'« OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. A complete Encyclopedic 



•^ ^ Lexicon, Literary, Etymological, Scientific, Technological, and Pro- 



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Imr»P»f \i\\ nirt inrt arv nouncing. Edited by Charles Annan- 

 III I pCl I Cll Ul^llUliai^ DALE, M.A., LL.D. Illustrated by above 

 three thousand engravings on wood, besides a splendid series of full-page plates, many of 

 which are coloured. This edition of the Imperial Dictionary is beautifully printed on 

 paper of imperial size, specially made for the Work. It is issued in eight Divisional 

 Volumes of a handy size for reference, bound in cloth, with a fine design on side; or in four 

 volumes Roxburgh binding. 



The reception accorded by the press and the public to this new edition of the Imperial 

 DICTIONARY has been such as to show that the care and labour bestowed upon it have met 

 with due recognition, and to prove that it will continue fully to maintain its established 

 position as a standard lexicon of the English language, and as a work of the highest utility 

 fair the purposes of general reference and everyday requirement. 



DISTINCTIVE POINTS. 

 To sum up the chief points of this edition— 



I. It is the latest revised dictionary, and has a supplement of many thousand new words. 



II. It contains more words, exclusive of compound and obsolete words, than any other English 

 dictionary. 



III. The pronunciation is explained on a plan which is simplicity itself. 



IV. It gives the pronunciation and the meaning of the word as recognized to-day. 



V. It has more illustrations than any other English dictionary. 



VI. It has full-page plates (coloured and otherwise), which are an outstanding feature of the work 

 No other English dictionary contains full-page plates. 



VII. It has clear type, beautifully printed on fine paper, and is substantially and elegantly bound. 



VIII. It has a specially prepared Supplement issued with each volume, and not, as is usually the 

 case, relegated to the end of the complete work. 



IX. It has a very full Appendix, probably the best and finest given with any dictionary in the world. 



X. It is sold on a plan at once acceptable and convenient, within the reach of all, and the price is 

 very moderate. 



"The Imperial Dictionary", says the St. fames' Gazette, "is a work which fairly 

 deserves the epithet of monumental. It is really what it professes to be — 'a complete 

 encyclopaedic lexicon, literary, scientific, and technological'. In other words, it is the best 

 dictionary of its kind in the English language, and its kind is the best." 



"We have no hesitation in saying", writes the Spectator, "that it will prove a most 

 thorough piece of workmanship, and that among reference-books of its class it will hold 

 the first place, both as an authority and a source of instruction and entertainment." 



" The encyclopedic method of treatment which has been adopted ", remarks the 

 Athenceum, " will be found of the greatest service, affording as it does to the reader the 

 advantages of the ordinary dictionary combined with those of the encyclopedia." 



The St. James 1 Gazette says: — "The encyclopaedic part is executed with great skill 

 and accuracy ; and the genius of the editor has been exercised with the power and precision 

 of a hydraulic press upon the enormous masses of facts with which he has had to deal ". 



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