ENGLISH SURNAMES. AN ESSAY ON FAMILY NOMENCLATURE. Historical. Etymological and Humorous. With Several Illustrative Appendices. Fourth Edition Enlarged. In Two Volumes.
Published by John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square., London, 1875
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TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. 7.25 x 5 inches. Vol. I, xxvii + [i] + 276 pp.; Vol. II, vi + 271 pp. Title pages in red and black. Bound in contemporary dark green cloth with handwritten paper spine title labels. Some wear to extremities, browning of flyleaves and some occasional foxing and stains; otherwise a very good set. Symbolic bookplates. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by headpiece vignettes, by initials, and by publisher's device on title page. Twenty five essays on various categories of surnames, with additional chapters and appendices on rebuses, canting arms, punning family mottoes, anagrams, inn signs, common names, The Roll of Battel Abbey (with transcripts from the copies of Leland, Holinshed and John Foxe), and on Latinized Surnames. Mark Antony Lower (1813-76) was a schoolteacher, antiquarian and historian of Sussex, author of The Sussex Martyrs (1851) and A Compendious History of Sussex (1870), and joint founder of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1844. Enlarged version of first edition published 1842. GENEALOGY SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY GENEALOGY 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED GENEALOGY. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- ENGLISH SURNAMES. AN ESSAY ON FAMILY NOMENCLATURE. Historical. Etymological and Humorous. With Several Illustrative Appendices. Fourth Edition Enlarged. In Two Volumes.
- Author
- LOWER, MARK ANTONY.
- Publisher
- John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square., London
- Publication year
- 1875
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
Marrins Bookshop
Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom
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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…
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