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Перевод: abridgement

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сокращение; сокращенный текст; краткое изложение; сокращенное издание; конспект ; ограничение
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Тезаурус:

1. His Figures of Plants were appearing periodically to amplify and embellish his writing, the very successful Abridgement had reached its fourth edition and the Garden Kalender its tenth.
2. A second Abridgement was published in 1741 and others followed in 1748 and 1754, all consisting of three octavo volumes.
3. An English summary of some of these appeared in 1654, and Francois Bernier produced a famous French abridgement between 1674 and 1678.
4. If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller, they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century's gardening and, if that proved too expensive, then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar .
5. However, its contents have not yet been revealed in any detail, neither has the valuable Abridgement been considered.
6. He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , (the sixth, 1752), with many alterations, he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement.
7. In 1735, four years after the first folio edition, an octavo abridgement appeared in two volumes, with plates reduced, but containing the whole of the practical part and species included in the folio.
8. The Gardeners Dictionary and its Abridgement
9. Two further editions of the Abridgement were warranted, in 1763 and 1771, the year of Miller's death, the last containing some articles not included in the 1768 Dictionary .
10. He was also "hastened by an advertisement that an abridgement was nearly finished in other hands."
11. The doctor had intended to reciprocate with a copy of the Dictionary ("I know not whether anything would be more acceptable to a botanist), but on finding it out of print, sent a copy of the Abridgement "not long since published" (fifth edition, 1767).
12. The number of editions of these two publications, eight of the Dictionary and six of its Abridgement in Miller's lifetime provides clear evidence of Kalm's sweeping statement that this was the most sought after book on horticulture.
13. Every day the diary had to be filled; an important day-to-day record of garden affairs was imperative for his writing and current Work for his publishers called for continued attention, because throughout his long life editions of the Dictionary and the Abridgement needed revision and extension.