A Provincial Glossary

London: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1811. Hardcover. Good. 124 p.; 31 cm. Contemporary brown cloth spine with plain brown paper over boards. In Good Condition: front board is detached but present; lacking most of cloth over spine; edges are rubbed; pages are clean and bright.

London: S. Hooper, 1790. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; unpaginated; G; Bound in Brown leather with gilt lettering on red spine label; silk bookmark; Boards have crumbling and flaking to leather, bumping and rubbing to corners, rubbing along edges, splitting along front joint; Textblock has waviness to pages, age toning to pages, foxing to pages, dark brown marks on second… Read more about this item

London: printed for Edward Jeffery, No. 11, Pall Mall, 1811. 8vo, pp. viii, [142]; [1], 143-304; the glossary occupies the first half of the text, the balance local proverbs. First published in 1787. Includes separate sections on superstitious cures, fairies, omens portending death, magicians, witches, ghosts, etc. Vancil, p. 103; Kennedy 10635 citing the quarto edition of the same… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Edward Jeffery, 1811. 4to, pp. iv, 124. Contemporary paper boards backed in green cloth. Paper lightly toned. Bards marked, a small puncture-hole to front board through first few leaves, extremities a bit worn, small splashmarks to front flyleaf. Booklabel of J.O. Edwards to front pastedown, remains of erased pencil trials to flyleaf. The quarto issue… Read more about this item

London: Edward Jeffery, 1811. Large, thin 4to, pp. iv, 124; original paper-covered boards, later cloth back with manuscript label on spine (partially perished); edges rubbed and worn, and some browning of the text, but a large, uncut and largely unopened copy. First published in 1787. The glossary occupies the first half of the text, the balance local proverbs. An… Read more about this item

London: printed for S. Hooper, 1790. 12mo, pp. viii, [324]; 57, [3]; including the glossary, supplement, proverbs, and superstitions, includes 1 leaf of Hooper ads for other Grose titles; original blue paper-covered boards, title in ink on cream paper spine; front cover nearly loose, spine soiled. In a new blue cloth clamshell box. This copy with a presentation from… Read more about this item

London: Edward Jeffery, 1811. Large paper copy (measuring 13¼" x 10¾"), thin 4to, pp. iv, [56], 57-124; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked; prelims and terminals a little spotted, but generally very good and sound. Printed on J. Whatman watermark paper dated 1808. The glossary occupies the first half of the text, the balance local proverbs, An octavo edition was… Read more about this item

London: printed for S. Hooper, 1790. 12mo, pp. viii, [324]; 57, [3]; including the glossary, supplement, proverbs, and superstitions, includes 1 leaf of Hooper ads for other Grose titles; contemporary full speckled calf, red morocco label (chipped, causing loss of 10 letters), upper joint starting, lower joint cracked, spine ends rubbed and chipped; a good copy. First published in… Read more about this item

London, S. Hooper, 1790. . Second edition; 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm); browning to title edges, occasional foxing; contemporary calf, green morocco label, spine extremities worn, lightly rubbed; viii, [324], 57, [3]pp. An attractive example of the corrected and enlarged second edition of provincial terms and sayings collected by the antiquarian Francis Grose (d.1791). Highlights include the Northern… Read more about this item

1811. GROSE, Francis. A PROVINCIAL GLOSSARY; With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions. London: [Privately] printed for Edward Jeffery, 1811. From tp: "A New Edition, Corrected." Includes derivations of Saxon or Dutch words; corruptions from German, Latin, and French; final section on superstition provides interesting information on ghosts, witches, and omens. Large 4to., brown cloth spine, paper… Read more about this item

London: Edward Jeffery, 1811. Cloth. Good. 11" by 8.5". None. A copy of 'A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions' by Francis Grose. A New Edition, Corrected. From the Preface: "The utility of a Provincial Glossary to all persons derirous of understanding our ancient poets, is so universally acknowledged, that… Read more about this item

1790. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket . No dustwrapper as issued. 8vo. - A total of 377 pages with the following sections: Preface, vii, Glossary of Provincial and Local Words 176 un-numbered pages, Supplement to the glossary 24 pages, followed by 120 pages of Local Proverbs listed in counties, and 57 pages of superstitions, plus [1]… Read more about this item

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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