The Hallamshire glossary.
London.
William Pickering, 1829.
First edition.
8vo.
xxviii, 164pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, remnant of printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities worn, significant loss to spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions and later blind-stamp of John Fowles to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting.
The sole edition of antiquary Joseph Hunter's (1783-1761) dictionary of the regional dialect of the Sheffield area. Hunter's reputation as a scholar had been established with the publication in 1819 of his history of the region Hallamshire: the History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 21855