BOSWORTH, Rev. Joseph
Title | A Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary: |
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Publisher | London Gibbings and Company |
Date | 1901 |
Book ID | 38558 |
Description
8vo., original brown buckram, spine gilt lettered. 278pp., arranged in three columns.
A nice copy. Good, generally clean, tight. Light pencil annotation to title page.
"Anglo-Saxon that is Angle, Engle or English Saxon, is the language of the Platt, Low, or North Part of Germany, - brought into this country by the Jutes, Angles and Saxons, - and modified and written in England." 278pp., in three columns, long publisher's catalogue bound in. "Bosworth and Toller" was later to become the standard work of reference on Anglo-Saxon.
Zaunmüller 117, Dalby 368.
Price:
£20.00