A Glossary of North Country Words in Use. From an Original Manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, With Considerable Additions by John Trotter Brockett - 2012-01-10

Newcastle Upon Tyne: T. and J. Hodgson, 1825. First edition. Leather. Good. 8" by 5". None. A smart first edition of John Trotter Brockett's glossary of northern dialect. First edition. Lacking portrait frontispiece of the author. A fascinating work providing a detailed and comprehensive glossary of the dialect used in the North of England in the early nineteenth century. Written by John Trotter Brockett, a British attorney, antiquarian, philologist and numismatist. From an original manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, or "Radical Jack," a British Whig statesman, and Governor General and High Commissioner of British North America, with considerable additions to the work. Bound in quarter brown crushed morocco with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the boards. A crack to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. A tear across… Read More

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T. and J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley, 1825. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxvi, 243, [1]; engraved dedication-p. dated Dec. 31, 1824; 19th-century marbled boards neatly rebacked in calf, preserving the original red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. With the ownership signature of William James Barrock Lodge, Carlisle on the title page, and subsequent signatures of Guy Dureell and May Herbin on the flyleaf. Only 632 copies were printed (32 on large paper). Among the subscribers are Sir Walter Scott (3 copies), Robert Southey, Lord Cornwallis, the Scottish lexicographer John Jamieson, William Pickering (4 copies), and Thomas Frognall Dibdin. A second edition was called for by 1829. Vancil, p. 34.