John Smith, An Accidence or the Pathway to Experience Necessary for all Young Sea-men (1626)
Date
1626
Author
John
Smith
Note: 14/10/2005
Book title
An Accidence Or The Path-way to Experience. Necessary for all Young Sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to Sea, briefly shewing the Phrases, Offices, and Words of Command, Belonging to the Building, Ridging, and Sayling, a Man of Warre; And how to manage a Fight at Sea. Together with the Charge and Duty of every Officer, and their Shares: Also the Names, Weight, Charge, Shot, and Powder, of all sorts of great Ordnance. With the vse of the Petty Tally
Publication place
London
Publisher
Jonas Man and Benjamin Fisher
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
navigation and the sea
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The Boteswaine is to haue the charge of all the Cordage, tackling, sailes, fids, and marling spikes, needles, twine, and saile-cloth, and rigging the shippe, his Mate the command of the long boate, for the setting forth of Anchors, waying and fetching home an Anchor, warping, towing, and moreing, and to giue an account of his store. (p. 3)
sample: The Boteswaine is to haue the charge of all the Cordage, tackling, sailes, fids, and marling spikes, needles, twine, and saile-cloth, and rigging the shippe, his Mate the command of the long boate, for the setting forth of Anchors, waying and fetching home an Anchor, warping, towing, and moreing, and to giue an account of his store. (p. 3)
STC
22784
Catalog
Craig, Hardin, Jr. A Bibliography of Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Dealing with Military, Naval, and Maritime Affairs, 1577-1965. 1st edn. (1960); 2nd edn. (1962). 3rd edn. Houston: Fondren Library, Rice University, 1962: 1965.
2.
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Other editions
1627: STC 22785;
1636: STC 22786
1636: STC 22786
Modern editions
Smith, John. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631). Ed. Philip L. Barbour. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
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Smith, John. Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. Ed. Edward Arber. 2 vols. Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910. view record
Smith, John. Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. Ed. Edward Arber. 2 vols. Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910. view record
Criticisms
Hüllen, Werner. English Dictionaries 800-1700: The Topical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
159-67.
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Sources
- Barbour, P. L. . "Captain John Smith's Sea Grammar and its Debt to Sir Henry Mainwaring's `Seaman's Dictionary'." Mariner's Mirror 58.1 (1972): 93-101. view record
