Author: ROBINSON, C. Clough and ROSS, Frederick STEAD, Richard, HOLDERNESS, Thomas.
Title: A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire; with Others Peculiar to Lower Nidderdale by C. Clough Robinson. 1876. Bound with: A Glossary of Words Used in Holderness in the East-Riding of by F. Ross, R. Stead, T. Holderness. 1877. Glossaries of Words Used in Yorkshire and Holderness. English Dialect Society.
Description: London, Trübner for the English Dialect Society, 1876. Gilt rubbed from spine, leather scuffed at edges and corners, upper hinge tender but still strong. Internally in very good condition. A nice original copy. Collectable; Very Good Two works bound in one published by Trübner's for the English Dialect Society. Mid-Yorkshire: lixpp (introduction and grammar),162pp. (glossary). Holderness sketch map, 20pp (introduction and grammar), pp.20-162 glossary. Contemporary ex library bound in half calf with marbled boards and raised bands to spine, marbled fore-edges and endpapers, library plate to paste-down, presentation plate to rear paste-down. this book was presented to Ashton-under-Lyne library by D. F. Howorth, who at one time edited the Albion Magazine there and was a prominent non-conformist. Hardcover.

Keywords: English|Language|Dialect|Yorkshire|Holderness|Lancashire|Ashton-Under-Lyne|Non-Conformists|Albion Magazine|Word Lore


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