• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A compleat collection of English proverbs : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish and other languages. The whole Methodically Digested and Illustrated with Annotations, and proper Explications. By the late Rev. and Learned J. Ray, M. A. and Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, With their Significations and Original in two Alphabetical Catalogues; the oue of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties. With an Account of the Preparing and Refining such Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England
  • Contributor: Ray, John [Author]
  • Published: London: printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; for Olive Payne, at Horace's Head in New-Round-Court, opposite York-Buildings, in the Strand, MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
    Online-Ausg., Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: The third edition, augmented with many hundreds of words, observations, letters, &c
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (viii,319,[1],150,[2]p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: English language Provincialisms ; Proverbs, English
  • Reproduction series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: A reissue of the 1737 edition with a cancel titlepage in red and black
    English Short Title Catalog, T88587
    Keynes, 13
    Price from imprint: price neatly Bound in Calf, and Letter'd 5s
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The 'Collection of English words' has a separate titlepage, pagination and register
    With a final leaf of advertisements