A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenivix Trench

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First edition

London: John W. Parker & Son, 1859. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xii, 232, 4 ads; orig. brown cloth, spine ends chipped, spine detached, cloth split along joints; 1908 inscription on half-title; a fair copy or better of an important book. In his introduction, Trench states that this work in no way duplicates the work being done on the new English Dictionary to be published by the Philological Society. However, this glossary was nearly in its final

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