The Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. in Prose and Verse: with a Memoir of the Author by John Corry

Name: The Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. in Prose and Verse: with a Memoir of the Author by John Corry
Author: John Collier

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J. Westall, Rochdale, 1st edition, 8vo, 5¾" - 9" tall, reback, leather spine with raised bands and contrasting label a little rubbed, cloth boards , 494pp, eleven b&w engraved plates including frontis portrait of the author, some slight foxing to plates. Previous owner s signature on title page and printed on back endpaper. Containing a dialogue in the Lancashire dialect, a glossary of Lancashire words and phrases, and miscellaneous poems and letters of Tim Bobbin, a.k.a. John Collier, a collector and recorder of Lancahire dialect. Part two is The Battle of the Flying Dragon, printed for the author Tim Bobbin, with a separate title page. One of the earliest and best of the English dialect dictionaries including many quaint and unusual phrases.

Author John Collier

Date 1819

Binding Hardcover

Publisher Westall

Condition Very Good

Price: £95.00

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