The English dialect dictionary being the complete vocabulary of all the dialect words still in use, or known to have been used during the last two hundred years

by Joseph Wright

$5,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

London: Henry Frowde at the Clarendon Press ; New York: Putnam's, 1896-, 1905. First edition, the original 30 parts in 18, limited to 150 sets printed on Whatman hand-made paper, each volume signed by Wright, 4to, original blue printed wrappers; some spines chipped, some edges curled and a few other minor defects, but generally a very good, fresh-looking and largely unopened set, contained in five new cloth folding boxes for preservation. With the English

• Binding: Wrappers

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