O full true un pertikler okeawnt o wat me un maw mistris seede un yerd wi' gooin to th' Greyte Eggshibishun e' Lundun, e' eyghtene hundurth un sixty two : printed oer ogen fro th' "Rachde Observer," ... 'lustrayted wi' o rooke o pratty pikters; containing loikewoise o dikshunayry ... / be o felley fro Rachde ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ormerod, Oliver, 1811-1879.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--England--Lancashire--Texts.

English language.

Dialect literature, English--England--Lancashire.

Dialect literature, English.

Great Exhibition (1862 : London, England)--Anecdotes.

Great Exhibition.

Great Exhibition (1862 : London, England)--Humor.

English language--Dialects.

England--Lancashire.

Genre:

Texts.

Anecdotes.

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Grimsby Public Library (bookplate) (stamp)

Ormerod, Oliver, 1811-1879 (inscription)

Booth, James (inscription)

Physical Description:

viii, 108 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Other Title:

O full true un pertikler okeawnt o wat me un maw mistris seede un yerd wi' gooin to th' Greyte Eggshibishun e' Lundun, e' eyghtene hundurth un sixty two

Rachde felley, 1862

Place of Publication:

Rachde : Printed be Wrigley un Son ; Lundun : Sowd be Hamilton, Adums and Co. ; Manchester : Abel Heywood un John Heywood [etc., etc.], 1864.

Notes:

"The following Brochure is intended to give a representation of the Lancashire Dialect, as spoken in the neighbourhood of Rochdale, and with various though slight modifications, throughout the district of South Lancashire."--Cf. Introduction.

First published in a series of letters in the "Rochdale Observer".

"A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases"--p. [101]-108.

Frontispiece and illustrations by R. Langton; after Fred. Holding.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Penn Library copy inscribed by the author to James Booth, 20 Aug. 1864.

OCLC:

124073460