A Dictionarie French and English
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A Dictionarie French and English: published for the benefite of the studious in that language is a bilingual French to English dictionary compiled by the Huguenot refugee Claudius Hollyband while residing in London in the late 16th century.[1]
Along with Robert Estienne's Dictionnaire françois-latin,[2] Hollyband's Dictionarie French and English is a source for Randle Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues.[3] which is often taken as the first French-English dictionary [citation needed]. A 1608 privilege presents Cotgrave's Dictionarie as collected first by C. Holyband and augmented or altered by R. Cotgrave.
