Principles of English etymology. First series: the native element

Skeat, Walter W.

Editore: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887

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First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 541 plus 36-p. publisher's catalogue; a near fine copy in original green cloth; from the library of George Stephens, the runic archaeologist. Skeat was the founder of the English Dialect Society, which led prepared the way for Joseph Wright's great English Dialect Dictionary (1896-1905); he was an early memebr of the Early English Text Society, and prepared a number of important texts for them, the most important of which was his great edition of Piers Plowman, which took twenty years to complete. He is best remembered today for the English Etymological Dictionary (1882).

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• Titolo: Principles of English etymology. First series: the native element
• Editore: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1887
• Edizione: prima edizione
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