A Glossary Or Collection Of Words Phrases Names And Allusions To Customs Proverbs C Which Have Been

by Robert Nares

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First edition

London: Robert Triphook, 1822. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 583, 2 ; text in double column; mounted steel-engraved portrait of Nares bound in as a frontispiece; 19th century half black morocco over marbled boards; minor rubbing, else very good and sound. The only edition in 4to, many times reprinted in 2 volumes 8vo. The work has been described by Halliwell and Wright as indispensable to readers of Elizabethan literature, and it contains numerous sensible

• Binding: Leather

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