French-English lexicographer, journalist and writer
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![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041044/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041047/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041046/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041049/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041045/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041048/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
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The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1699
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Dictionnaire royal, françois-anglois et anglois-françois / [Abel Boyer].
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729Date: 1752- Books
Dictionnaire royal, françois-anglois et anglois-françois. Tiré des meilleurs auteurs qui ont écrit ces deux langues ... / par A. Boyer.
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1796