The miscellaneous works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. containing his view of the Lancashire dialect; with large additions and improvements. Also his poem of The Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton. Together with other whimsical amusements in prose and verse. Some of which never before published

[COLLIER, JOHN.]

Published by printed for J. Haslington and sold in London by W. Richardson, Manchester, 1793

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2 parts in 1, as issued; 8vo, pp. 208, xiv, [15]-69, [70-114], 115-203, [1]; viii, [9]-33; frontis portrait and 9 engraved copperplates; nice copy in contemporary quarter green straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Includes a 60-p. dialogue between Tim and his friends in the Lancashire dialect, a 44-p. glossary of Lancashire words and phrases, and miscellaneous poems and letters of Tim Bobbin, a.k.a. John Collier. The second part, with a separate title-p., is The Battle of the Flying Dragon, printed for the author Tim Bobbin. One of the earliest and best of the English dialect dictionaries, frequently printed over a period of more than 100 years. A life-long student of the Lancashire dialect, Collier was "an acute observer of character, and for many years used to take note of every quaint and out-of-the-way term or phrase he heard in the village alehouses and elsewhere" (DNB); and advanced the opinion that the Lancashire dialect "was the universal language of the earliest days of England.". Seller Inventory # 24961

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Title: The miscellaneous works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. ...

Publisher: printed for J. Haslington and sold in London by W. Richardson, Manchester

Publication Date: 1793

Binding: Hardcover