A Collection Of English Words Not Generally Used With Their Significations And Original In Two

by John Ray

$1,200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy over against S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1691. Second edition of the first book in English on English dialects, 12mo, pp. 22 , 211, 5 ; full contemporary sheep, scuffed but sound; nice copy in original condition. Not included in the first edition, and integrated here, is a large catalogue of northern words with their significations and etymologies, which had been sent to Ray by his

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