On the Study of Words : Lectures Addressed (Originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-School, Wincester (English Lexicography)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1886. Nineteenth Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Full green polished calf, decorations worked in gilt onto boards and spine, marbled edges and endpapers, sewn headbands, decorative prize label, signed by the principal, and dated 1888 is pasted onto front endpapers. Volume with rubs to corners and edges, tiny crack at top of upper joint, foxing to feps. A very solid copy. Very Good Plus. Item #1882
Trench also wrote "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries" (1857), ..."which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary." Winchester (2004), p.39. Bound by the Relfe Brothers with their binder's stamp verso top front free endpaper.
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