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Lot 156
[LEXICOGRAPHY] Group of three works.
Comprising RAY, JOHN. A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications. Bound with: A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England. Both London: W. Otridge [etc.], 1768. Fourth editions. Original mottled calf, rebacked; PEGGE, SAMUEL. Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs... London: J. Nichols, 1814. Second edition. Half calf, marbled sides; MOORE-CAREW, BAMPFYLDE. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew. King of the Beggars ... A Dictionary of the Cant Language... London: Crosby and Co. for W. Salton, Tiverton, 1812. Later printing of this classic. Period brown calf, rebacked. All volumes with some wear, two pages in the last work stained by an inserted clipping. Book label of William Safire.
Skeat described the first work as "the most important book ever published on the subject of English dialects" (i.e. up to that time, excepting the monumental works published in Skeat's era). The second work includes a supplement to Francis Grose's Provincial Glossary at the end. The third is a later but standard edition of the life of the engaging rogue Bampfylde Moore Carew (first published 1745), supplemented by a dictionary of cant terms.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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