FARMAR, Austin

Title Place-Name Synonyms Classified: Author’s presentation copy inscribed thus in ink to front free endpaper.
Publisher London David Nutt
Date 1904
Book ID 38135
First Edition  
Signed  

Description

8vo.. Original brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, Celtic family symbol blind stamped to upper board. Generally in very good condition, clean, bright and tight. A few pages a little untidily opened at the time, corners and spine ends a little bumped but a very nice copy nevertheless. “The work is based on Miss Blackie’s ‘Etymological Geography’... in whose book the place-names will be found arranged under the roots alphabetically...” Preface - written at Cliftonville House, Margate in 1904.
Price: £40.00

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