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 gotten in England ... augmented with many hundred of words, observations, letters, &c
London: printed for Christopher Wilkinson, at the Black Boy over against S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1691. Second edition of the first book in English on English dialects, 12mo, pp. [22], 211, [5]; full contemporary sheep, scuffed but sound; nice copy in original condition. Not included in the first edition, and integrated here, is a "large catalogue of northern words [with] their significations and etymologies," which had been sent to Ray by his friend M. Francis Brokesby, sometimes fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. At the back of the volume is a short account of the defects of the English alphabet, a brief section on husbandry, and Edward Lhuyd's "A collection of local words parallel'd with British or Welsh." Alston IX, 2; Keynes 24; Kennedy 10624; Wing R389. Item #64514
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