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FLORIO, John (1553-1625) . Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues . London: printed by Melch. Bradwood [and William Stansby], for Edw. Blount and William Barret, 1611. William Reymes’s copy of the enlarged second edition of Florio’s English-Italian dictionary. Reymes (d.1685) was the translator of two Italian plays, including Self interest, or, The belly wager , a verse adaptation of Niccolo' Secchi’s prose drama L’Interesse (1581), believed to be a source for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The autograph manuscript of his translations is now preserved at the Folger Shakespeare Library. This copy of Florio’s expanded version of A Worlde of Wordes (1598) bears numerous annotations in Reymes’s hand picking out key Italian vocabularly, including a 6pp. list of ‘infamous names’ which covers the Italian for a broad spectrum of terms for the socially maligned. ESTC S121353. 2 parts in one volume, folio (279 x 179mm). First title within architectural woodcut border, engraved portrait of the author, second title with woodcut device, with the blanks 3F4 and 3Q4 (without the 2 leaves before the first title, first title trimmed to woodcut border, a few marginal tears occasionally extending into text, some tiny rust holes affecting a few letters, marginal waterstains at beginning and end). Contemporary panelled calf, covers stamped ‘W R’ in gilt within blind-ruled border, morocco spine label lettered in gilt (restored at spine and corners, endpapers renewed, slightly rubbed and scratched). Provenance : William Reymes (d.1620; binding, inscriptions on first title [‘W R’ and ‘? Reymes 1640’], on A1 [‘Libro di Guglielmo Reymes 1640’] and on second title [‘Guglmo Reymes’], his numerous annotations on endleaves and some in the margins).