COMPILED BY GEOFFREY PAYTON - Payton's Proper Names. A Completely New Reference Book

London England, Frederick Warne, 1969. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0723210039 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. Payton's Proper Names. A Completely New Reference Book. Sunned top and bottom edge of spine of cloth. Wear and tear to D/J. Small piece of D/J. missing from top edge of spine. Price clipped to D/J. This is both a new dictionary and a new kind of dictionary and the publication of this edition is therefore something of an event. It contains words which are in common usage in contemporary English but which, because they are proper names, do not appear in normal dictionaries. Its scope is both classical and modern (very modern in places) but always relevant to today's written and spoken English. This new approach, which the author believes is unique, has lead to the creation of a valuable new work of reference. It is also absorbingly interesting - a browser's delight. 502 pp.