Author: BOSWORTH, Rev. Joseph
Title: A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary:
Description: London, Gibbings and Company, 1901. 8vo. original brown buckram, spine gilt lettered. 278pp. arranged in three columns. A nice copy. Good, generally clean, tight. Light pencil annotation to title page. "Anglo-Saxon that is Angle, Engle or English Saxon, is the language of the Platt, Low, or North Part of Germany, - brought into this country by the Jutes, Angles and Saxons, - and modified and written in England." 278pp. in three columns, long publisher's catalogue bound in. "Bosworth and Toller" was later to become the standard work of reference on Anglo-Saxon. Zaunmüller 117, Dalby 368.

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