[Rarebooks] fa: DICTIONARY OF OBSOLETE AND PROVINCIAL ENGLISH - Thomas Wright - 1857

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Thomas Wright: Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, containing words from the English writers previous to the nineteenth century which are no longer in use, or are not used in the same sense. And words that are now used only in the provincial dialects. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Thick 8vo (18 cm) in period half roan morocco and marbled boards, marbled page edges; vii, [1], 1039 pp.

Deaccessioned from Stoke Newington Public Library, with its attractive armorial bookplate on the front paste-down, small shelf number on lower spine, stamps and pencil on title-page, and ink stamp on last page; no other library markings. Some rubbing to the boards and joints, modest wear to the extremities; text block a bit over-opened at p. 675 with one quire (6 leaves) coming loose at the top of the gutter but still secure; otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound. A solid, attractive copy of this compendium of linguistic anachronisms, everything from "A that how" (in that way) to "Zwodder" (a drowsy and stupid state of body or mind). Loosely laid in is a 1990 typed letter from bookseller Karen Thomson (a leading authority on English books on language) advising the recipient that she has just acquired a 1904 edition of the Thomas's Dictionary, but "If you would rather have a nineteenth-century edition I should be able to find you one before too long." Presumably, she found one and this is it.