1. Add MS 78754
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 78754
- Title:
- Francis Grose. ‘A Provincial Glossary; with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions’; 1790. Interleaved and annotated by Sir Frederic Madden. Bound-in an interleaved copy of ‘A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose’ by Samuel Pegge (b. 1733, d. 1800). With a letter of 16 October 1895 from Clara Strachan to Prof. [Joseph] Wright concerning her work on his slips relating to Grose’s and Pegge’s Provincial Glossary of 1895. Purchased at Sotheby’s, lot 77, 1...
- Scope & Content:
- Samuel Pegge, d 1800 antiquary: 'A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose': 1814. Joseph Wright, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford: Clara Strachan, of Reading, county Berkshire: Letter to Joseph Wright from Clara Strachan: 1895. Dictionaries: Sir Frederic Madden, KH;...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1790
- Extent:
- 1 item