Author: MOORE John
Title: You English Words. [Third Impression]. BERTA LAWRENCE'S COPY
Description: Collins,, [1964]. 8vo., Third Impression; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Enthralling historical survey of centuries of literary and colloquial English by the author of the Brensham trilogy. This copy was formerly in the library of Berta Lawrence, the West Country author and topographer, and bears her signed holograph inscription on front free endpaper

Keywords: countryside authors, john moore, etymology, lexicography, berta lawrence


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