A Vocabulary Or Collection Of Words And Phrases Which Have Been Supposed To Be Peculiar To The

by John Pickering

$850 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First complete and best edition of the first book of Americanisms, 8vo, pp. 2 , 9 - 206, 1 ; later quarter straight-grain maroon morocco, gilt lettering direct on spine, old paper label adhered to spine, extremities rubbed, but otherwise good and sound. From the library of the marine historian and illustrator, Clifford, W. Ashley, with his bookplate laid in. Pickering wrote a number of philological pieces for the

• Binding: Leather

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