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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Brewer's Britain and Ireland. The History, Culture, Folklore and Etymology of 7500 Places in These Islands. From Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, From Ballybunnion to Barking, From the Backbone of England to the Cold Shoulder of Scotland, from the Orchard of Ireland to the Green Bridge of Wales.this book takes the reader on a roving, recherche and richly informative 'phrase and fable' ramble round these far-flung islands. Gather together the historic, linguistic, folklore, literary, and popular cultural assciations of some 7500 places and their names, this book is an authoritative, sometimes quirky, and always highly browsable work of reference, in the tradition of that great work of Victorian reference, Dr. E. Cobham Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fabnle. 1267 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…