A printed copy of Gudmundur Andrésson, Lexicon Islandicum sive Gothicae runae vel linguae septentrionalis dictionarium ... (Copenhagen: Christian Wering for Christian Gerhard, 1683) [BL STC Scandinavian G385]. The volume was presented, [1702x1704], by James Vernon the younger (1677-1756), (British envoy to Denmark from 1702 to 1707), to the linguist William Wotton (see Wotton's inscription on front pastedown). Wotton subsequently annotated the volume with copious notes comparing Icelandic to English and Anglo-Saxon, whilst working on his groundbreaking research on an Indo-European proto-language. That work was poorly published in Latin as 'Dissertatio de confusione linguarum Babylonica', in John Chamberlayne's Oratio dominica (Amsterdam, 1715), without the author's knowledge. An English version was published posthumously as A discourse concerning the confusion of languages at Babel (London, 1730) [ESTC T83574].