Title Page, Proverbs details |
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| Image title: | Title Page, Proverbs | |
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| Source: | Bailey, Nathan: “Dictionary of Proverbs” (1917) | |
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| Keywords: | title pages, page images, colour | |
| Status: | public domain in the USA, out of copyright in Canada, hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes and no usage credit required | |
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DIVERS PROVERBS With their explication & illustration Compiled and Methodically Digested as well for the Entertainment of the Curious as the Information of the Ignorant and for the Benefit of Young Students · Artificers · Tradesmen & Foreigners who are desirous thorowly to understand what they Speak · Read or Write By Nathan Bailey anno domini 1721 Woodcuts by Allen Lewis Printed and to be sold by the Yale University Press adjoining the College in New Haven Connecticut · & by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press · London M. D. XXXX XVII The title page and the front of the dust jacket are the same, so I scanned the front of the dust jacket. The actual proverbs are taken from Nathan Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary as far as I can tell; my copy of that dictionary is the second edition from 1726. |
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| Dimensions: | 123 x 178mm (4.8 x 7.0 inches) | |
| Filename: | 000-Title-Page-q85-587x779.jpg | |
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