⁂ FIFTY COPIES only have been printed on THICK PAPER; these are interleaved with writing paper for MS. additions, and bound in half-morocco, price 12s. 6d.
Thick 8vo, published at £1 5s., only 12s. 6d.,
Dictionary of Americanisms; Words and Phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the United States. By John Russell Bartlett. Third and Best Edition.
The work extends to 560 pages, and presents to the English reader a body of admirably-selected extracts from the humorous and dialectical literature of the United States.
It is a curious fact connected with Slang, that a great number of vulgar words common in England are equally common in the United States; and when we remember that America began to people two centuries ago, and that these colloquialisms must have crossed the sea with the first emigrants, we can form some idea of the antiquity of popular or street language. Many words, owing to the caprices of fashion or society, have wholly disappeared in the parent country, whilst in the colonies they are yet heard. The words skink, to serve drink in company, and the old term miching or meeching, skulking or playing truant, for instance, are still in use in the United States, although nearly, if not quite, obsolete here.
Now ready, only a few copies for sale, original price 5s., now offered at 2s. 6d., a
Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English LANGUAGE, from the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300; consisting of an Alphabetical Inventory of Every Word found in the printed English Literature of the 13th Century, by the late HERBERT COLERIDGE, Secretary to the Philological Society. 8vo, neat half-morocco.
An invaluable work to historical students and those interested in linguistic pursuits. “The present publication may be considered as the foundation-stone of the Historical and Literary Portion” of the great English Dictionary now in preparation by the Philological Society. “Explanatory and etymological matter has been added, which, it is hoped, may render the work more generally interesting and useful than could otherwise have been the case.”
HERALDRY OF WALES.
Only 50 copies printed, in marvellous facsimile, 4to, on old Welsh paper, half-morocco, 12s. 6d.,