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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Nathan Bailey (d. 1742)

Bailey, Nathan. An English lexicographer and classical scholar; died at Stepney, June 27, 1742. He was a school-teacher at Stepney, and a Seventh-Day Baptist. Besides educational books, he was the author of a ‘Universal Etymological English Dictionary’ (1721), the first English dictionary with any pretensions to being complete, and the basis of Dr. Johnson’s better-known work. He wrote also a ‘Domestic Dictionary’ (1736).