Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases; From English Writings Mainly Before 1500
by Whiting, Barlett Jere (With Helen Wescott Whiting.)
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Cambridge: Belknap Press 1968. (4to) 733pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Indices. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears and a faint dampstain along the top inch of the back cover and back panel. "This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled". Time Period 15th Century. Locale: England. (Writing, Dictionaries, Language, Linguistics, Proverbs, Reference).
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- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
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- Title
- Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases; From English Writings Mainly Before 1500
- Author
- Whiting, Barlett Jere (With Helen Wescott Whiting.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Keywords
- Writing, Dictionaries, Language, Linguistics, Proverbs, Reference
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- Essays and Literary Criticism;
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