Folio. Volume I: A-D, 1034 pp / Volume II: E-M, 1037-2010/ Volume III: N-Z, 2013-2744 pp., double column per page, wormholes throughout, heavier on first & last few pages of each volume, original half-calf, rebacked, title gilt on raised spine, title page of volume 2 repaired with tape, reading set, Imprimerie F. Mizrahi, Alexandrie, first edition, 1903-1906.

Synopsis

Muhammad al-Najjari (d. 1914) was educated in France and Egypt. In this comprehensive dictionary al-Najjari makes the first attempt to combine in one work the famous dictionaries of Ibn Mazur and al-Firuzabadi. He tried to arrange the words alphabetically instead of according to their roots (which previously has been standard in Arabic dictionaries).
Bibliographic references: Anwer G. Chejne, The Arabic language,1969, p. 129. Zaunmüller, 15.