Words and Places
( Edward THOMAS ) TAYLOR, Isaac
Illustrations of History, Ethnology & Geography. [with an Introduction by Edward Thomas].
FIRST APPEARANCE IN EVERYMAN
Published: Dent, [1911]
Stock code: 6643
Price: £16.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title and endpapers; original series binding of terracotta ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, brown top, pictorial endpapers, a very good, clean copy.
With large personal bookplate on front paste-down. EL 517; Eckert, p.267; Hoppe, p.366; Seymour 990. Canon Taylor's work is the earliest attempt in English to apply scientific philology to the derivation of local names.