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LONG, W. H.
| Title | A Dictionary of the Isle Wight Dialect: and of Provincialisms used in the Island; with illustrative anecdotes and tales; to which is appended the Christmas Boy's Play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and songs sung by the peasantry; forming a Treasury of Insular Manners and Customs of Fifty Years Ago. |
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| Publisher | London and Newport Reeves & Turner, G. A. Brannon |
| Date | 1886 |
| Book ID | 38556 |
Description
Original green cloth lettered gilt to spine and upper board, xii+170pp..
Generally very good, clean and tight, but boards showing some damp discolouration.
“In 1886, W.H. Long published his Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect — a book much quoted from to this day.” Alan Stroud (2020).
