Item #124746 Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, with a Glossary of over 4,000 Words & Idioms now in use. Richard BLAKEBOROUGH.
Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, with a Glossary of over 4,000 Words & Idioms now in use

Wit, Character, Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, with a Glossary of over 4,000 Words & Idioms now in use

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, W. Rapp & Sons, Limited, 1911 (second edition, corrected and expanded)/ 1898.

Octavo, xvi, 504 pages with a frontispiece portrait.

Gilt-lettered burgundy cloth lightly marked and rubbed, with minimal wear to the extremities; spine a little creased and sunned; edges a little foxed; endpapers offset and a little foxed; mild signs of use and age; a very good copy.

'The Yorkshire Folk-Speech is not a Dialect, but a Language' (page 16); approximately 150 words have been added to the glossary.

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