[Rarebooks] FS: Ray's "Collection of English Proverbs" Cambridge: 1678

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Ray, John. A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH PROVERBS. Digested Into a Convenient 
Method for the Speedy Finding Any One Upon Occasion; with Short Annotations. 
Whereunto Are Added Local Proverbs... Old Proverbial Rhythmes... Exotick Proverbial 
Sentences, and Scottish Proverbs. The Second Edition Enlarged by the Addition 
of Many Hundred English, and an Appendix of Hebrew Proverbs, with Annotations 
and Parallels. Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for W. Morden. 1678. Second 
ed. Sm. 8vo. (8),414pp. Plus 1 leaf of publisher’s ads. The 19pp. appendix is 
printed in Hebrew and English. Title printed in red & black. Cont. calf, worn, 
rebacked, red calf spine label. Title-page lightly soiled.     $750.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Ray (d. 1705) was better known for works on botany and natural history. Only 
two editions of this work appeared in his lifetime; the first of 1670 
contained only 296pp. Wing R387. Keynes #11.

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