A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions ... second edition, corrected and greatly enlarged

Name: A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions ... second edition, corrected and greatly enlarged
Price: 1750 USD
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Author: Francis Grose

by Francis Grose

$1,750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: printed for S. Hooper, 1790. 12mo, pp. viii, 324 ; 57, 3 ; including the glossary, supplement, proverbs, and superstitions, includes 1 leaf of Hooper ads for other Grose titles; original blue paper-covered boards, title in ink on cream paper spine; front cover nearly loose, spine soiled. In a new blue cloth clamshell box. This copy with a presentation from Grose: From the author / with complts. to Mr. McGowan and in another hand - McGowan's? : May

Binding: Hardcover

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