HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1969* Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul.* Binding and cover condition: Blue green cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners. VG++* Jacket condition: Textual dust wrapper, green title to white spine and white title to olive face. PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Book plate & owner?s signature to prelims. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning but a few spots to edges. VG++.* Illustrations: B/w population maps.* Pages: 356 pp. text. xlii pp. indices & blank pages at rear.* Description: Reaney surveys the origins and history of English surnames. The book is etymological and explanatory, not genealogical, though this aspect has not been ignored. There are sections relating to surnames relating to the English locality, from French and continental places, surnames of relationship, from native personal-names, new names from France. Surnames of office, of occupation, some common compounds, nicknames, nicknames from physical and external characteristics, nicknames from mental and moral characteristics, nicknames from animals, birds and fishes. Oath-names, favourite expressions and phrase-names, the growth of family names and the homes of family names (by county).* A NEAR FINE Text copy with minor wear with complete but worn dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2428
Title: The Origin of English Surnames
Author: Reaney, P. H
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG++/GD
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition 3rd. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0710028857
ISBN 13: 9780710028853
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London UK 417
Date Published: 1969-01-01
Size: 22.1 x 14.7 x 4.1 cm

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