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The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq.

(COLLIER, John) The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq. Containing his view of the Lancashire dialect, with large additions and improvements; also his poem of the Flying Dragon, and the Man of Heaton; together with other whimsical amusements in prose and verse. Manchester: Printed for Hopper & Son. [c.1800]
204pp, frontispiece & engraved title, 'New edition corrected and revised price 1s. 6d.'. 12mo. A little browned. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, simply rebacked. The novelist John Fowles' blind stamp to leading f.e.p.

¶See ESTC N64808 for a similar copy, but in 206pp ('check pagination') at Duke and Emory Universities only. Copac records a copy at Trinity College, Cambridge in 204pp, c.1800, but with 'Thomas escaping from his master's fury' as the frontispiece, rather than 'Hob and the quack doctor' in this copy. Pages 55-105 contain a Glossary of Lancashire words and phrases.
Stock #93293
£225


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