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Dialect bibliography, by Frederic Madden
Madden, Frederic (1801-1873)
1839-1873
Comprises a copy of 'A Bibliographical list of the works that have been published, towards illustrating the provincial dialects of England' by John Russell Smith (London, 1839) annotated and interleav...
Yorkshire dialect poem
c.1844
Comprises a poem which begins: "A Tale Partly in the yorkshire Diealect/At a House on a Moor one night/Some Neighbours together did meet/A blasing Wood fire gave them light/And grouler laid quiet at t...
A dictionary of archaic and provincial words : obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs from the fourteenth century (v.1)
Halliwell-Phillipps, J O (1820-1889)
1889
Contents: Vol.1. A-I -- Vol.2. J-Z.
Quatuor sermones : reprinted from the first edition printed by William Caxton at Westminster
Buckley, William Edward (1817?-1892); Roxburghe Club
1883
Reprint. Originally published. Westminster : Caxton, 1483?. Introd. in English; text in Middle English. "Printed for the Roxburghe Club."
A Gaelic dictionary in two parts : I. Gaelic and English. II. English and Gaelic : in which the words in their different acceptations are illustrated by quotations from the best Gaelic writers, and their affinities traced in most of the languages of ancient and modern times : with a short historical appendix of ancient names deduced from the authority of Ossian and other poets, to which is prefixed A New Gaelic Grammar
Armstrong, R A (1788-1867)
1825
Spine title: Lexicon gaelico-anglicum.
A new English-Welsh dictionary : containing all words necessary for reading an English author... [etc.]
Evans, William (fl. 1768-1776)
1771
A dictionary of the Welsh language, explained in English : with numerous illustrations, from the literary remains and from the living speech of the Cymry (v.1)
Pughe, W Owen (1759-1835)
1803
With: The grammar of the Welsh language / by William Owen. (166 pp). Bound between the introd. and the dictionary proper in v. 1.
A dictionary of the Welsh language, explained in English : with numerous illustrations, from the literary remains and from the living speech of the Cymry (v.2)
Pughe, W Owen (1759-1835)
1803
With: The grammar of the Welsh language / by William Owen. (166 pp). Bound between the introd. and the dictionary proper in v. 1.
Geiriadur Saesneg a Chymraeg = an English-Welsh dictionary
Evans, William (fl. 1768-1776); Richards, Thomas (1710-1790)
1812