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    By Elizabeth Mary Wright
    London   Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press
    9" by 6" xx, 341pp.
    A smart first edition of this study of English speech and folk-lore from English linguist and folklorist Elizabeth Mary Wright.
    By Elizabeth Mary Wright

    1913 Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore

    London   Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press
    9" by 6" xx, 341pp.
    A smart first edition of this study of English speech and folk-lore from English linguist and folklorist Elizabeth Mary Wright.
    £65.00
    : 1kgs / : 921T91
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    First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    First edition. A detailed and comprehensive language study on English folklore, with chapters on dialect speakers, rich and expressive vocabularies, specimens of dialect, popular etymologies, archaic words and their meanings, foreign terms, rhyming phrase, popular sayings, and much more. Written by Elizabeth Mary Wright, an English linguist and folklorist.

    Condition

    In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small pencil mark or annotation. Age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper.

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