Item #001958 The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. Robert Forby.
The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority
The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority
The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority
The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority

The Vocabulary of East Anglia; an Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the Twin Sister Counties, Norfolk and Suffolk, as it Existed in the Last Twenty Years; with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority

London: Printed by and for J.B. Nichols and Son, 1830. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #001958

Two Volumes. Original cloth with paper spine label. Vol. I: xlvii, 125 p.p.; Vol. II: 126-435 p.p., [errata]. Bookplate of Thomas Shelford Bidwell. Robert Forby was an English Philologist. His History of East Anglia offers a dictionary containing the etymology of words, phrases and slang in Norfolk and Suffolk. Trimmed pages. Light sunning to boards and spine. Some spotted stains to covers. Paper labels somewhat soiled, slightly torn. Bumping to corners. foxing. Bumping along spine. Spine-ends frayed. Light foxing. Scoring to middle of p.p. 121 recto and verso. Else a very good copy.

Price: $340.00

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