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A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect : (in three parts) / by a lady ; to which is added a glossary, by J. F. Palmer.
London : Exeter : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; P. Hannaford, 1837.
viii, 99, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
A lady = Mary Reynolds Palmer.
Advertisement on final page.
Title page verso and colophon: Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
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".
Booklabel of John Carter.
Contemporary blue paper boards; white paper spine.
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.
Other pencil annotations in text, possibly by Cory; loosely inserted biographical note from the D.N.B.
English language Dialects Texts. England Devon
Devon (England) Languages History Sources.
Taylor, Richard, 1781 - 1858 printer.
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892 former owner.
Carter, John, 1905 - 1975 former owner.
England London.
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