Item #25552 Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell. Seventeenth edition, revised and corrected. E. Cobham Brewer, Rev.
Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell. Seventeenth edition, revised and corrected.

Dictionary of phrase and fable giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell. Seventeenth edition, revised and corrected.

London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., n.d., [ca. 1900.]. Thick 8vo, pp.viii, 1061; text in double column; nice copy in later half black morocco over green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered direct on spine; spine slightly faded, else about fine. Brewer (1810-1897) was a man interested in lists and dictionaries. Besides this title he compiled A Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories (1880); Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words (1882); and A Dictionary of Miracles (1884). Item #25552

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