BREWER, The Rev. E. Cobham

8vo.. Original maroon buckram, spine lettered gilt, upper board lettered in blind. Portrait frontis. tissue protected. Facsimile copy of Brewer’s 1894 preface to New Edition after title. 14 x 22 x 8 cm.. 1440pp., in double columns. 16pp Cassell’s list bound in back. Heavy item, may require extra for postage. Generally a very good copy, very tight. Small inoffensive stab to upper board Internally clean. No annotations, no tears. Early blank label to f.e.p.. Spine a little sunned, fore-edges dusty, a little age marked and foxed. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810 - 1897 lexicographer compiled A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, The Reader's Handbook and other reference works as well as his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The first edition of this title was published in 1870 and became immediately popular. This New Edition of 1895 was considerably added to.