Author: TAYLOR Isaac
Title: Words and Places. Illustrations of History, Ethnology & Geography. [with an Introduction by Edward Thomas]. FIRST APPEARANCE IN EVERYMAN
Description: Dent,, [1911]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title and endpapers; original series binding of terracotta ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, brown top, pictorial endpapers, a very good, clean copy. With large personal bookplate on front paste-down. EL 517; Eckert, p.267; Hoppe, p.366; Seymour 990. Canon Taylor's work is the earliest attempt in English to apply scientific philology to the derivation of local names.

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