Premium Compact Oxford English Dictionary & Thesaurus Blue Hardcover with Gilt Edges
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary + Oxford Compact Thesaurus by Catherine Soanes 2008 third edition (revised), Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), two 6 x 8 5/8" tall x 2 1/2 inches thick blue faux leather hardcover volumes, no dust jackets (as issued), gilt decoration and lettering to spines, marbled endpapers, [OED] x, 1210, 43; [Thesaurus] vi, 934, 32 pp. (2,235 pages total.) A couple of light stains to fore page edges. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked, apparently unused. The Compact Oxford Dictionary and Oxford Compact Thesaurus form an indispensable desk reference set for any library. They distill the essential entries from the full Oxford reference works, acknowledged as the standard works for the English-speaking world. The dictionary contains over 145,000 words, phrases and definitions, while the thesaurus features more than 333,000 alternative and opposite words.
