Leans Collectanea Collections By Vincent Stuckly Lean Of Proverbs English Foreign Folk Lore And

by Vincent S Lean

$550 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1902-04. 4 volumes in 5, large 8vo, 4 frontispieces, 2 plates of facsimiles; original red cloth backed in white buckram slightly soiled ; generally a very good, sound set of an excellent scholarly work, the best on English proverbs since that of Ray 1670 . Contains sections on local proverbs of other countries, and a biographical memoir of Lean by Julia Lucy Woodward. Item #18493

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