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A bibliographical list of the works that have been published Volume 1; or are known to exist in ma, illustrative of the various dialects of English - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...editions, only the initials of the author are given. 'The Garland of Goodwill.' A chap-book of Ballads, 'to be sold at the Ring in Little Britain,' printed about 1730. Contains a specimen of the Somers. dialect, entitled 'A Pleasant Dialogue between Plain Truth and Blind Ignorance.' See the preceding notice. There is a letter in the Somersetshire dialect in the 'Grub Street Journal' of the 18th Octr., 1733. Soe 'Athenaeum,' 25th May, 1872; p. 666. An Election Ball, in Poetical Letters in the Zomerzetshire Dialect from Mr Inkle, a Freeman of Bath to his wife at Gloucester.... by the Author of the New Bath Guide. 12mo. Dublin, G. Bonham, 1776. 'Vocabulary of the Provincial Words of Somerset, with a short essay on the dialect. Monthly Magazine, Sept. 1, 1814; pp. 126-7. a second paper, by J. Jennings; p. 330. 'Observations on some of the Dialects of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a Glossary of words now in use there, and Poems and other Pieces exemplifying the dialect. By James Jennings, Honorary Secretary of the Metropobtan Literary Institution. 12mo, pp. xxiv, 191. London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. In Brayley's Graphic and Historical Hlustrator, 4to, London, 1834, will be found a Dissertation of some of the Anglo-Saxon Pronouns, by James Jennings, Esq., which is illustrated by examples from the Devon, and Somers. Dialects, including a Poem (not in the above) entitled 'Dr Cox, a blanscue,' with a Glossary. See, however, the following. The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, &c. Second edition; the whole revised, corrected and enlarged by James Knight Jennings. 12mo. London, J. R. Smith, 1869. A Collection of Pieces in the Dialect of Zummerzet; edited by James Orchard Halltwell, Esq. 8vo. London, J. Rus...
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