queer discourses proverbs von old merry (4 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition, English sheets. 12mo, 136 pages, decorated green cloth, bookplate, a bit shaky at the hinges. Quite scarce: WorldCat cites only 2 copies. "The cat in gloves catches no mice" inspired the frontispiece illustration. With more than 6 woodcuts. This first appeared in London in 1868.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

FIRST EDITION. Initial ad. leaf, half title, front., plates, illus., 16pp ads; a little spotted, tissue guard roughly removed. Orig. green cloth by Westley & Co., blocked in gilt; sl. marked, spine a little worn at head. Contemp. gift inscription on half title, bookplate of Joan Feisenberger on leading pastedown. Copac lists copies at BL, Oxford and Cambridge only. A lighthearted attempt to explain some of the English language's weirder proverbs, most more or less still in use today ('He that cuts off his nose spites his own face', 'Rome wasn't built in a day'), while others seem to have vanished ('It is not the cowl that makes the monk'), the frontispiece illustration for 'The cat in gloves catches no mice' is especially bizarre.