A complete collection of English proverbs : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. : The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations and proper explications. / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... ; (To which is added, by the same author) A collection of English words, not generally used. ; With their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the Northern, the other, to the Southern counties. ; With an account of the preparing and refining such metals & minerals as are found in England.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, John, 1627-1705.

Standardized Title:

Collection of English proverbs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proverbs.

Proverbs, English.

English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

English language.

Metallurgy.

Great Britain.

English language--Obsolete words.

English language--Provincialisms.

Metallurgy--Early works to 1800.

Metallurgy--Terminology.

Metallurgy--Great Britain.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Baldwin, C. Kemble, Mrs. (donor)

Caufield, Richard (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, vi, 308 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. and J. Allman ...; T. Boone ...; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ..., 1818.

Notes:

"Reprinted verbatim from the edition of 1768."

First ed. published as: A collection of English proverbs / by J. R. Cambridge : Printed by John Hayes, printer to the university, for W. Morden, 1670.

Cited in:

Keynes, G. Ray, 19

Contains:

Ray, John, 1627-1705. Collection of English words not generally used. 1818.

OCLC:

4609330