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checked information. Helped by subscriptions, donations, and accommodation provided by Oxford University Press, Wright began in 1898 to publish in parts what later became the ‘English Dialect Dictionary ’. When the Society’s aims had been achieved, it was dissolved.
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(Gloucestershire. Worcestershire. Herefordshire.) MURRAY (John, publisher ) A handbook for travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire. Third edition revised. John Murray. 1884, ink name at head of title, text in doublecolumn, 3 plans, folding counties map in rear pocket, pp. xxxix, 350, 64(Handbook Advertiser 1884/85), 8vo., orig. embossed linen-grain red cloth, laid down gilt lettered backstrip (darkened), gilt titles on front board, endpapers sometime replaced, red speckled edge (top edge darkened), good £45.00 An Interesting Association Copy (Great Britain.) [AIKIN (John)] England delineated, or, A geographical description of every county in England and Wales: with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial: for the use of young persons: with outline maps of all the counties. Third edition, considerably improved. Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1795, engraved folding map as frontispiece, 42 engraved maps in outline, showing only towns and rivers, without scales, borders, or any other information, pp.vi-x not included by binder (or a printer’s error), pp. v, 11-396, [4](index), 8vo., contemp. tree calf, slight loss at head of smooth backstrip (divided into six compartments by decorative gilt rules), gilt lettered red morocco label in second, remainder with stylised flowerhead devices at centres surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, sides with single gilt fillet as border (front board starting at head and foot), scrolling gilt foliate designs as inner border, board edges gilt hatched, engraved armorial bookplate of the Micklethwaite family, marbled endpapers, yellow tinted edges, presentation inscription (see note), good ( ESTC T84686; Lowndes I, p.22; Chubb p.223; Whitaker 103) £220.00 The first edition of 1788 was issued without maps. This copy bears a presentation inscription on a blank preceding the frontispiece ‘Adjudged to Nathaniel Micklethwaite for his superior and successful diligence, from Midsummer to Christmas 1797—by his affectionate friend and tutor Robert Forby ’. Forby, a Norfolk philologist and teacher, presented the work to the thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Micklethwaite, presumably at the family home in Beeston. The day after his twentieth birthday on 27th January 1804, Micklethwaite married the only daughter of George, 4th Earl Waldegrave, MariaWilhemina Waldegrave. In February the following year a son was born to the couple. Tragically, Lady Maria died of an ‘inflammation’, six days after the child’s birth, having just completed her 21st year.
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Voice of the Picturesque (Great Britain.) GILPIN (William) [A collection of nine titles in various editions, uniformly bound in twelve volumes]. T. Cadell and W. Davies. 1800-09, plates, mostly sepia aquatints and with maps (see note), 8vo., bound in half green morocco, backstrips darkened, with raised bands between blind rules, gilt lettered direct in