WORDSMITHS & WARRIORS: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain.
Pp. viii+424, printed in green, red & black and illustrated in colour throughout (several full page), endpaper maps, indices; small cr. 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; ribbon marker; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. First edition. *'Starts with the Anglo-Saxons arrivals in Kent and in the places that show the earliest evidence of English. It ends in London with the latest technology of analysing grammar. In between are intimate encounters with the places associated with such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth; the biblical Wycliffe and Tyndale; the dictionary compilers Cawdrey, Johnson, and Murray; dialect writers, elocutionists, and grammarians' [wrapper blurb]. Item #164361
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