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BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL. A DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS. A GLOSSARY OF WORDS AND PHRASES, Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States.
New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1848. 8vo, xxvii, 412pp. Orig. brown cloth, gilt and blind stamped, spine ends worn & tear at midsection, bookplate, otherwise very good. ¶ First Edition, rare. 'This was the first attempt to make a comprehensive dictionary of American speech, and it still holds front rank as a popular reference book in libraries' (Burke p.2-3). The Dictionary was the best known work of the antiquarian and bibliographer Bartlett, passing through four editions. He also wrote the Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents Connected with U.S. & Mexican Boundary Commission, and compiled the first catalogue of the John Carter Brown collection of early Americana. Cordell Collection B-107. Sabin 3738.
Offered for US$ 300.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 1020.