Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire / With a Glossary of over 4,000 Words and Idioms Now in Use

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
On page 262 ‘To leeak a bad leeak’ = to leeak ill. has been changed to ‘To leeak a bad leeak’ = to look ill.
Many words in the Glossary are cross-referenced to other words. In several cases these other words are not present.
The book begins with an extensive list of subscribers immediately after the table of contents. This has been moved to the end.
WIT, CHARACTER, FOLKLORE AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
Oxford HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
WITH A GLOSSARY OF OVER 4,000 WORDS AND IDIOMS NOW IN USE
BY RICHARD BLAKEBOROUGH (SOCIETY HUMORIST) LATE HON. CURATOR OF THE R.S.S.; AUTHOR OF ‘MORE THAN A DREAM,’ ‘T’ HUNT O’ YATTON BRIGG,’ THE COMEDIES ‘TOMBOY,’ ‘AUNTIE,’ ETC.
London HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CORNER, E.C. 1898
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED TO THE REV. E. S. CARTER, M.A. OF YORK AND J. G. WILSON, M.A. OF DURHAM AS A MEMENTO OF SINCERE GRATITUDE FOR MANY ACTS OF FRIENDSHIP SHOWN TO THE AUTHOR
At one time it was thought possible for the present work to be undertaken conjointly by the Rev. M. C. F. Morris, author of Yorkshire Folk-Talk , and myself. Such collaboration, though pleasing to both, was found to be quite impracticable. Many of my patrons and friends having urged me to undertake the work single-handed, I have ventured to do so. I have aimed at no higher standard than the chatty style which I have adopted in drawing-rooms and on the platform. If friends and critics prove but half as kind and considerate in this new venture as they have hitherto done, I have little to fear. My main object has been simply to place on record, in, I hope, a readable form, some of the wit, character, customs, and folklore of the North Riding which I have thought to be sufficiently interesting and worthy of being saved from that long list of things forgotten.