A Dictionary of The Proverbs in England In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. A Collection of the Proverbs Found in English Literature and The Dictionaries of The Period
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Fine / Very Good. Item #007351
Full maroon cloth, gold lettering. xiii, 854 pp. Fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, a few tears to edges, some light staining to spine. The great English authors of the period 1500-1700 made copious use of proverbs, native and imported, by direct quotation and by allusion, and their full meaning cannot be readily grasped without recognition of the proverbial phrases that they had in mind. The greatest of them all, William Shakespeare, was also the one whose knowledge of proverbs was most comprehensive and who availed himself of them most freely and skillfully. Professor Morris P. Tilley's A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, a compilation as exhaustive as thrity years of collection and study could make it, is intended to serve not only as a definitive proverb dictionary of this great period in English literature but also as an instrument for its better understanding.
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