A collection of college words and customs

by Benjamin Homer Hall

$275 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Cambridge: published by John Bartlett, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 319; covers and spine a bit faded, occasional browning of the text, previous owner's names on endpapers; a very good, sound copy in original brown cloth decorated in blind, gilt lettering on spine. Hall, the brother of the noted philologist Fitzedward Hall, published this little volume shortly after his graduation from Harvard. It contains both English and American words and phrases in use

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