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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

Title: 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 the late Rev. and learned J. Ray, M.A., Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of the Historia plantarum, and Wisdom of God in the works of creation, &c. ...
Author: Ray, John, 1627-1705
Publication: London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, Princess Street, Hanover Square; T. Boone, Strand; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1818.

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[2], vi, 308 pages; 18 cm (12mo in 6s)

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"(To which is added, by the same author) 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 perparing and refining such metals & minerals as are found in England."
"Ray's proverbs. Allman's second edition" -- page facing title.
Title page in red and black.
Printer's imprint: Printed by J.F. Dove, St. John's Square.

Call Number

Pforz (Ray, J. Complete collection of English proverbs)

OCLC

4609330

Author

Ray, John, 1627-1705, compiler.

Title

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 the late Rev. and learned J. Ray, M.A., Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of the Historia plantarum, and Wisdom of God in the works of creation, &c. ...

Imprint

London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, Princess Street, Hanover Square; T. Boone, Strand; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1818.

Edition

Reprinted verbatim from the edition of 1768.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: With the binder's ticket of Simms & Son, Bath. -- Contemporary calf, brownish-red morocco spine label, gilt spine titling and rules.

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Place of Publication

England London

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Dove, John Fowler, printer.

Boone, Thomas, 1789 or 1790-1873, bookseller.

T. and J. Allman, bookseller.

Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, bookseller.

Simms & Son, binder.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Ray, J. Complete collection of English proverbs)

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