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The gentle art of lexicography as pursued and experienced by an addict. / Eric Partridge.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 P2588 963g
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Lexicography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Tonbridge Kent : Printed in Great Britain by Tonbridge Printers Ltd.
- Other Title:
- Gentle art of lexicography a memoir
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Andre Deutsch, [1963]
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Word "lexicography" and title vignette printed in burgundy on t.p.
- "First published 1963 by Andre Deutsch Limited ..."
- "A list of dictionaries by Eric Partridge": p. 117-119.
- Back of dust-jacket has penciled corrections to prices of titles listed.
- Bound in orange cloth with gold lettering on spine.
- Includes bibliography.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Eric Partridge 1963.
- Culture Class Collection copy has textual corrections.
- OCLC:
- 1191863
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