Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of "The Gentleman's Magazine" from 1731-1868

George Laurence Gomme [ed.]

Verlag: Elliot Stock, London, 1886

Beschreibung

A delightful work exploring a vast history of language, being the dialects, proverbs and obsolete words and phrases of the past. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A collection of dialects, proverbs and word-lore from the 'The Gentleman's Magazine', a monthly magazine published in London from the eighteenth to the early twentieth-century.Containing a fascinating series of language studies, with meanings and historical uses of special words and phrases, such as "surquedry" and "voloupers".Edited by George Laurence Gomme, a public servant and antiquarian who helped found both the Victoria County History and the Folklore Society. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. With rubbing and slight bumping to the extremities. Small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 921Y37

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore: A ...

Verlag: Elliot Stock, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1886

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book