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Paul Wolff
Mar 23, 2013, 4:01:45 PM3/23/13
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It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
during the London blitz.
We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
180,000 words or headings.
Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
(intellectual value, of course: I care not for money) of this work?
--
Paul
the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
during the London blitz.
We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
180,000 words or headings.
Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
(intellectual value, of course: I care not for money) of this work?
--
Paul
Frederick Williams
Mar 23, 2013, 6:22:03 PM3/23/13
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since 1895?
> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
--
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
Tony Cooper
Mar 23, 2013, 6:48:22 PM3/23/13
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:22:03 +0000, Frederick Williams
<freddyw...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Paul Wolff wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
I have a copy of "A Dictionary of English Synonymes" that was
<freddyw...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>Paul Wolff wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
"Designed as a practical guide to aptness and variety of phraseology".
Written by Richard Soule and printed in 1896.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
Mike L
Mar 23, 2013, 7:02:32 PM3/23/13
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>Paul Wolff wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
Social historical value, too. I recently bought a daughter "Medicine
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
for the Million", apparently given away with _Tit-Bits_ in about 1920,
though the first ed seems to have appeared in 1906. It's extremely
informative on such matters as the proneness of women - "and even some
men" - to hysteria. Hysterical women are liable, among other things,
to fear of sudden death when in fact all they're suffering from is
indigestion: personally, I resent this feminine invasion of peculiarly
male territory. The advertisements in the endpapers are delightful.
It has the added advantage that my 3-y-o grandson is convinced that I
can get stories about Fireman Sam and the Three Little Pigs out of it.
--
Mike.
Paul Wolff
Mar 23, 2013, 8:12:54 PM3/23/13
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In message <514E2B0B...@btinternet.com>, Frederick Williams
<freddyw...@btinternet.com> writes
world, an ornament to any gentleman's shelves.
The long preface includes "an historical sketch of the English language,
its origin, dialects, structure, and affinities", a rendering of
Nativitas Christi Pastoribus anunciata in Old Saxon, and an extract
translated into West-Saxon, a comment of Robert of Gloucester ("Lowe men
holdeth to Englyss, and to her kinde speche yute"), and a number of
quotations from Bede onwards including samples of West Saxon,
(Worcestershire and Dorsetshire), the Southern, Northern, East and West
Midland dialects of the 13th and 14th centuries, and Langland.
Illustrations are also good value. The definition of Angelica sylvestris
is greatly enhanced by a line drawing, as is the explanation that a bar
is an ordinary formed like a fesse, but occupying only one-fifth of the
field, and that a bar gemel is a bar voided, with closets placed in
couples. Graeme Thomas would have known.
Fun indeed...I think I'll hang on to it.
--
Paul
<freddyw...@btinternet.com> writes
>Paul Wolff wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
>
And in between, it presents seven sturdy leather-bound spines to the
>>
>> It turns out that we have here in our book collection at home a copy of
>> the illustrated seven-volume Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, published
>> 1895, bound by Joseph W Hipkins & Co of 2 Mitre Street, Aldgate, London,
>> acquired by natural accretion, or by a grandfather's magpie spirit
>> during the London blitz.
>>
>> We were carrying out a book purge today - it's amazing what six hours of
>> snow will inspire - and couldn't decide if this was worth keeping. After
>> dipping into it, I think it probably is, subject to the amount of shelf
>> space we can add (the purge was directed to unshelved books, currently
>> contained in many, many cardboard boxes), but there are probably 5,600
>> pages of the dictionary I haven't glanced at yet. The preface claims
>> 180,000 words or headings.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any knowledge, or opinion, of the value
>> (intellectual value
>
>Slight. Which intellectual endeavour has not moved on great distances
>since 1895?
>
>> , of course: I care not for money) of this work?
>
>But fun value, possibly enormous.
>
world, an ornament to any gentleman's shelves.
The long preface includes "an historical sketch of the English language,
its origin, dialects, structure, and affinities", a rendering of
Nativitas Christi Pastoribus anunciata in Old Saxon, and an extract
translated into West-Saxon, a comment of Robert of Gloucester ("Lowe men
holdeth to Englyss, and to her kinde speche yute"), and a number of
quotations from Bede onwards including samples of West Saxon,
(Worcestershire and Dorsetshire), the Southern, Northern, East and West
Midland dialects of the 13th and 14th centuries, and Langland.
Illustrations are also good value. The definition of Angelica sylvestris
is greatly enhanced by a line drawing, as is the explanation that a bar
is an ordinary formed like a fesse, but occupying only one-fifth of the
field, and that a bar gemel is a bar voided, with closets placed in
couples. Graeme Thomas would have known.
Fun indeed...I think I'll hang on to it.
--
Paul
J. J. Lodder
Mar 24, 2013, 5:52:17 AM3/24/13
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