A collection of twenty-four 24 of Eric Partridge's distinctive Christmas and New Year's greeting cards
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London: 1947-76. Each printed on stiff card and folded to make 4 pages, except as noted, all 8vo, all fine, except as noted, all with prose essays by Partridge on a variety of subjects, many pertaining to some aspect of words or language. Laurie Atkinson, Esq., whose name appears with some frequency below, was an amateur lexicographer, a reader and contributor to Eric Partridge and his works for many years. These cards started appearing in 1927 and were issued annually until 1976, with a couple
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