BLOOMSBURY DICTIONARY OF WORD ORIGINS

by John Ayto

A$45 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. viii +584 last blank , mostly printed double column, publisher's device on upper free endpaper; med. 8vo; grey boards, lettered and decorated in silver; dust wrapper, the front flap a trifle foxed along fold; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Bloomsbury Reference, London, 1990. First edition. *'Uncovers the often surprising connections between words. In over 8,000 entries the dictionary reveals the origins of and links between, for

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