cleasby richard gudbrand vigfusson walter (1 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [ii],cviii,1-779,[780]pp. Complete, though rubbed; both hinges cracked internally with amateur tissue repairs to joints, head, tail; chips to initial and final leaves but internally clean: just Good. With the Appendix: First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Blue-green typographic paper wrappers; [iv],20pp. Sound, front cover reattached, much chipped at edges, but whole: Good only. First edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Old Icelandic, with the first edition of the appendix discussing etymologically related English words. VANCIL, Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900 p. 52. Uncommon in the trade.