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![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/000-Front-Cover-q95-380x500.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
Page images and pictures from Nathan Bailey’s 1721 Dictionary of Proverbs.
This is the Table of contents; there is also a transcription with the definitions and explanations. I used a 1917 edition from Yale University and the Oxford University Press, which is now out of copyright.
I also have Nathan Bailey’s Canting Dictionary online.
Title: Dictionary of Proverbs
City: London
Date: 1917
Total items: 48
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q95-152x200.jpg "[picture: Front cover, Divers Proverbs]")
This is a small book, obviously produced to look “quaint.” My copy also still has the remains of the dust-jacket, which I have scanned seperately [dust jacket flaps], and there are also images of each page and a full transcription. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/000-dustjacket-flaps-q75-198x200.jpg "[picture: Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book]")
Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book
The dust-jacket of the fac-simle had adverts on the front and back flaps for other books by Yale University Press, including There’s Pippins and Cheese to Come, Journeys to Bagdad, Les Trophées and The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp24-25-313x200.jpg "[picture: Save a Thief from Hanging, and he'll cut your Throat; Jack will never make a Gentleman.]")
![[picture: Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp32-33-313x200.jpg "[picture: Fat Paunches make Lean Pates.]")
![[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/wm/big/pp04-05-313x200.jpg "[picture: What is bred in the Bone will never be out of the Flesh; One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush; A Cat may look upon a king.]")
