Author: George Laurence Gomme [ed.]
Title: Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore: A Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of "the Gentleman&Apos;S Magazine" from 1731-1868
Description: London, Elliot Stock, 1886. Cloth. A delightful work exploring a vast history of language, being the dialects, proverbs and obsolete words and phrases of the past. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A collection of dialects, proverbs and word-lore from the 'The Gentleman's Magazine', a monthly magazine published in London from the eighteenth to the early twentieth-century. Containing a fascinating series of language studies, with meanings and historical uses of special words and phrases, such as "surquedry" and "voloupers". Edited by George Laurence Gomme, a public servant and antiquarian who helped found both the Victoria County History and the Folklore Society. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. With rubbing and slight bumping to the extremities. Small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Language Study Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore George Laurence Gomme Gentleman's Magazine Library Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore None


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