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Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs; Whence it will Appear that the Natives of the Metropolis, and its Vicinities, have not Corrupted the Language of their Ancestors; In a Letter from Samuel Pegge.
by PEGGE, Samuel
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London, J. Nichols, and Son, 1803. 8vo. IV,+ 325,+ (3) pp. Slight foxing. Somewhat worn contemporary full calf, spine gilt with red label, front hinge slightly cracked on top. From the library of George Stephens at Husaby, with his book plate. Carlander III, 358f. First edition, with a fine provenance. Samuel Pegge (1733-1800) was an antiquary, poet and a musician. This, his very amusing and readable analysis and history of the London cockney dialect, is relying quite heavily on Dr. Johnson. A second edition was published in 1814 and a third in 1844. George Stephens (1813-1893) was an runic archaologist and a philologist, writing on the English, Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse languages. Stephens only used his Exlibris during his youth: “It is thousand years ago I used Exlibris”, he wrote in 1888 to Carlander.
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- Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs; Whence it will Appear that the Natives of the Metropolis, and its Vicinities, have not Corrupted the Language of their Ancestors; In a Letter from Samuel Pegge.
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- PEGGE, Samuel
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