A Complete Collection of English Proverbs. Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested; And Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper Explications. by Ray, John - 1817

Hanover Square, Strand and Paternoster Row: T. & J. Allman; T. Boone; Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1817. [..the title continues "To which is added, A Collection of English Words, not generally used; With their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern Counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals & minerals as are found in England". [Reprinted verbatim from the edition of 1768]. 12mo, the title page printed in red and black, a clean tear to the gutter margin (see illustration) and a contemporary inscription, pp vi, 308, slight age-toning, endpapers a little foxed but otherwise quite clean and sound internally, bound in a (later ?) Victorian brown pebble cloth, a tear to the base of the spine, otherwise just slightly worn. [The signature is of Lady Rowe.]. Cloth. Good.