A VOCABULARY OR COLLECTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES
Handsomely bound 2nd edition of the first collection of words and phrases characteristic of American English.
Handsomely bound 2nd edition of the first collection of words and phrases characteristic of American English.
First edition this epochal work, described by Noah Webster as having accomplished "in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics" (quoted in PMM).
Scarce presentation copy of the first edition, subscribers' issue, of the lore, language and song of the Isle of Wight.
Presentation copy "from the author" of the second edition of this guide to the distinctive dialect of Sussex, from the library of a noted Sussex horticulturalist.
Scarce first edition of this etymological textbook of English affixes.
Scarce first edition of this pocket volume of etymological explanations and suppositions.
Handsomely rebound Edwardian edition of this invaluable 19th century dictionary of French slang, defined in English.
Second enlarged edition of this dialect and glossary of the Deanery of Craven, by a native of that region and champion of its linguistic features.
Second edition of this monograph on Anglo-Romani, with bibliography, grammar, vocabulary, and selected texts and transcriptions.
Later printing of the standard Middle English reference work.
First printing of Lohf & Sheehy's reference work.
Third edition, later issue, of Grose's classic slang dictionary of 18th-century colloquial and ungentlemanly nouns and verbs.