Thesaurus Linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, tam accurate congestus, vt nihil
penè in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus
Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotæ Bibliotheca: opera
& industria Thomæ Cooperi Magdalenensis.... Accessit Dictionarium
historicum & poëticum.... In Thesaurum Thomæ Cooperi Magdalenensis,
hexastichon Richardi Stephani.... _Impressum Londini._ 1573.
F^o. (12-3/4 × 8-3/4). B. 2.
Collation: ¶^6A-6V^{6}7D-7O^{6}7P-7Q^4, unpaged. Double columns.
Wanting ¶ 1 (? blank), also 7P 3, 4 and 7Q 3. To supply this
deficiency the last six leaves of Bynneman's edition of 1584
including colophon, have been bound in after 7P 2. Latin epistle
dedicatory to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, from Thomas Cooper.
Address to the reader in Latin and another in English. Commendatory
verses in Latin from Alexander Nowellus, Thomas Wykus (2 copies),
Thomas Valens (2 copies), Ia. Calfhillus, and in Greek by Richardus
Stephanus (3 copies). The 'Dictionarium Historicum & Poeticum'
begins with head-title on 7D 1. On the titlepage is the cut of the
Dudley crest as in James Sandford's 'Garden of Pleasure' (_q.v._).
Based on Sir T. Elyot's 'Dictionary,' the first edition of which
appeared in 1538.
Sinker 829. BM 406.