A VOCABULARY OR COLLECTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES
1816
Handsomely bound 2nd edition of the first collection of words and phrases characteristic of American English.
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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1755
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).
A DICTIONARY OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT DIALECT
1886
Scarce presentation copy of the first edition, subscribers' issue, of the lore, language and song of the Isle of Wight.
A DICTIONARY OF THE SUSSEX DIALECT: And Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex
1875
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.
AFFIXES IN THEIR ORIGIN AND APPLICATION, EXHIBITING THE ETYMOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH WORDS
1865
Scarce first edition of this etymological textbook of English affixes.
FORGOTTEN MEANINGS
1886
Scarce first edition of this pocket volume of etymological explanations and suppositions.
ARGOT AND SLANG: A New French and English Dictionary
1911
Handsomely rebound Edwardian edition of this invaluable 19th century dictionary of French slang, defined in English.
THE DIALECT OF CRAVEN, IN THE WEST-RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, WITH A COPIOUS GLOSSARY
1828
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.
THE DIALECT OF THE ENGLISH GYPSIES
1875
Second edition of this monograph on Anglo-Romani, with bibliography, grammar, vocabulary, and selected texts and transcriptions.
A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH: From A.D. 1150 to 1580
[circa 1930s]
Later printing of the standard Middle English reference work.
AN INDEX TO THE LITTLE REVIEW 1914-1929
1961
First printing of Lohf & Sheehy's reference work.
A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE
1796 [but circa 1810]
Third edition, later issue, of Grose's classic slang dictionary of 18th-century colloquial and ungentlemanly nouns and verbs.
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