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The Dictionary of Love; in which is contained the explanation of most of the terms used in that language. [John Cleland, trans. (?)]. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked Dublin: Printed in the year 1754 First Dublin edition, the English edition first appeared in 1753, twelve years after Jean Francois Dreux du Radier's Dictionnaire de l'amour appeared on French bookshelves. John Cleland, the anonymous author of the infamous "Memoirs of Fanny Hill", is known to have worked on the English translation which is presumably directly reprinted here. The text is generally rather cynical, this dictionary reads more like Ambrose Bierce than Ovid. Very rare, with no copies in APBC. According to Worldcat there is only one copy of this edition in institutional holdings, at Cambridge University. |
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