Authority Cited: Baxter
Author name and dates: William Baxter (1650-1723)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Schoolmaster, scholar; Latin/English grammar; physiological studies; tr. Horace; said to read only Welsh at age 18
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three W. Baxter cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One W. Baxter cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. There was also a posthumous edition of the Glossarium in 1733. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following W. Baxter items: 17 . . . Glossarium antiq. Brit. a W. Baxtero. . . .; 37 . . . Glossarium antiq. Brit. a Baxtero; 257 . . .Horatius Baxteri 1725.]
Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniæ atque Iberniæ temporibus Romanorum. Autore Willielmo Baxter, Cornavio, Scholae Merciariorum Praefecto. Accedunt viri cl. D. Edvardi Luidii, Cimeliarchae Ashmol. Oxon. de fluviorum, montium, urbium, &c. In Britannia Nominibus, Adversaria Posthuma, 1719, Londini, typis W. Bowyer; ball (def.); elf (etym.); fairy (etym.); high (def.);
Author name and dates: William Baxter (1650-1723)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Schoolmaster, scholar; Latin/English grammar; physiological studies; tr. Horace; said to read only Welsh at age 18
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: three W. Baxter cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One W. Baxter cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. There was also a posthumous edition of the Glossarium in 1733. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists the following W. Baxter items: 17 . . . Glossarium antiq. Brit. a W. Baxtero. . . .; 37 . . . Glossarium antiq. Brit. a Baxtero; 257 . . .Horatius Baxteri 1725.]
Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniæ atque Iberniæ temporibus Romanorum. Autore Willielmo Baxter, Cornavio, Scholae Merciariorum Praefecto. Accedunt viri cl. D. Edvardi Luidii, Cimeliarchae Ashmol. Oxon. de fluviorum, montium, urbium, &c. In Britannia Nominibus, Adversaria Posthuma, 1719, Londini, typis W. Bowyer; ball (def.); elf (etym.); fairy (etym.); high (def.);