Shelfmark
Kb.3.33
Title
The Oxford dictionary of quotations.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1941.
Physical description
xv, [1], 879, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Note
"Under the general editorship of Miss Alice Mary Smyth, who worked for the purposes of selection, with a small committee formed of members of the press itself." -- p. xi.
Note
1950 reprint.
Note
Includes indexes.
Note
Publisher's blue cloth with lettering and device stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Two bookplates of Edward Anthony Craig as 'Edward Carrick' and 'Edward Craig' with ms. dates 1970 and 1990 respectively.
Provenance
Bookplate with ms. ownership inscription: "Ellen M. G. Craig, 1962".
Provenance
Bookplate of Edward Gordon Craig and his ms. note recording price 35s. and that he received the book on 7 March 1952 in Vence.
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Copy-specific note
Extensive ms. annotations in pencil and ink in Edward Gordon Craig's hand throughout text, with several corners folded over, and with typscripts of a poem by Lewis Carroll and of the anon. folk song 'The trees so high', and sheets of ms. notes tipped-in by him.
Copy-specific note
Fragments of dust-jacket pasted onto front endpaper.
Copy-specific note
Tipped in blank leaf at p. 427 with dried frond of a plant, against passage from Tennyson's 'Flower in the crannied wall'.
Subject
Quotations, English Dictionaries.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--name
Craig, Ellen Gordon, 1904 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
Carrick, Edward, 1905 - 1998 former owner.
Added entry--name
Cumberlege, Geoffrey publisher.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B29339