T. Goodman, The Experienced Secretary (1699)

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Date
1699
Author
Book title
The Experienc'd Secretary: Or, Citizen and Country-man's Companion. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing the most curious Art of inditing Familiar Letters, in an excellent Stile, relating to Business in Merchandize, Trade, Correspondency, Familiarity, Friendship, and on all occasions ... Likewise a short Vocabulary or Dictionary, Explaining hard English Words. Part II. Containing the nature of Writings Obligatory ... A Continued Table of Terms, and their Returns. Tables of Interest and Annuity, &c. The Latin Names of Men, Women, Countries, Cities, Trades, Sums of Money, Date of the Months, Years, Reigns, &c. in proper Latin Cases
Publication place
London
Publisher
N. Baddington
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • economy
  • geography
  • hard words
  • Latin
  • mathematics
  • proper name
  • rhetoric
Summary
Roman numerals (pp. 69-70), explanations of punctuation marks (pp. 70-73), rhetorical tropes and figures (pp. 74-76), hard words (pp. 85-91); English and Latin men's Christian names (pp. 161-67), women's names (pp. 168-72), trades and professions (pp. 173-77), names of officers (pp. 177-78), English and Latin titles of honour (pp. 179-80), cities (p. 180), money (p. 181), countries (pp. 181-82), dates (pp. 183-85, 190), and sums (pp. 186-87)
Extent
Part I
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Zeal, a concernment for the Worship of God. (p. 91)
Alston
III.i.500
Wing
G1143
Catalog
Kennedy 6195a
Other editions
1700