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London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind.
Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise very good.
"The following little work is intended to embrace a collection of the lingual localisms; popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teotonic heathenism, to this day preserved among the rural population of Northamptonshire ..." ~Excepted from the Preface.

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, (1879). Sextodecimo (7" x 5.5"), 96 pages including 3 full page illustrations from engravings preceding text & 3 following. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in black on the upper cover.
Moderately soiled, spine browned, brief wear at corners, binding cracked following the last page of text (still secure), otherwise good or better.
"Father Tom and the Pope. - There is a time to laugh. And we had it when we read this book ... It is a broad satire on the faith and practice of Mother Rome: too broad perhaps for this country, where the Irish brogue, Irish humor, and Irish technical terms are not as readily caught as they are in the green isle for which the book was written."
 ~Excerpted from the publisher's remarks.

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary refers." Publisher's light brown cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind.
Binding soiled, spine cocked, small splits at the joints, corners bruised, minor foxing, otherwise about good & still quite useful.
The author notes in his preface that he has "introduced into this work some descriptions of local custums, sports, and pastimes, which may tend to rescue from oblivion these fast-perishing relics of a bygone period."