Shelfmark
Kp.3.19
Author
Title
A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect : (in three parts) / by a lady ; to which is added a glossary, by J. F. Palmer.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Exeter : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; P. Hannaford, 1837.
Physical description
viii, 99, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Note
A lady = Mary Reynolds Palmer.
Note
Advertisement on final page.
Note
Title page verso and colophon: Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
Provenance
Inscription in pencil of ?W.S. Price, traced over in ink with additions in hand of William Johnson Cory recording that the book was given to him by Price in May 1876. Cory's note on front cover: "Halsdon 1876".
Provenance
Booklabel of John Carter.
Binding
Contemporary blue paper boards; white paper spine.
Copy-specific note
Annotations in Cory's hand on title page and half-title verso, identifying the author as "Miss Reynolds, mentioned in Boswell" and J.F. Palmer as a surgeon and the first Speaker of the House of Commons of Victoria, and noting existence of a third dialogue in another edition printed in Plymouth.
Copy-specific note
Other pencil annotations in text, possibly by Cory; loosely inserted biographical note from the D.N.B.
Subject
English language Dialects Texts. England Devon
Subject
Devon (England) Languages History Sources.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Taylor, Richard, 1781 - 1858 printer.
Added entry--name
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892 former owner.
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B45564