A Dictionarie French and English
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.
Along with Robert Estienne's Dictionnaire françois-latin, Hollyband's Dictionarie French and English is a source for Randle Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. which is often taken as the first French-English dictionary . A 1608 privilege presents Cotgrave's Dictionarie as collected first by C. Holyband and augmented or altered by R. Cotgrave.
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