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Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary
by J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
William Hodge & Co, Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. These notes on Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language were first published in the Glasgow Herald & are collected & amplified here by their author to be published in book form for the first time. Described by their writer as 'fragmentary, very incomplete & nothing like a revision or correction of Jamieson's work' they nonetheless provide interesting cross-references to the meanings & origins of the words alphabetically listed in this volume. To the front is a six-page prefatory note by the author & a copy of his letter to the editor of the Glasgow Herald. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 7 + 186 pages. Text is in Scots. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Top edge gilt in good condition. Gilt titles spine. vertical wrinkle to cloth of rear cover, minor dents to cover edges & light wear to spine ends & corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Scots Language; Dictionaries; Philology; Scotland; Scots Language; Reference. Inventory No: 3911. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3911
- Title
- Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary
- Author
- J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Hodge & Co
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow & Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Language/Linguistics/Philology/Dictionaries/Scots Language/Reference/Scottish Dictionary/Scotland Language & Linguistics; Scots Language; Dictionaries; Philology; Scotland; Scots Language; Reference. Unbranded J. B. Montgomerie-Fleming Desul
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