English Surnames Essays On Family Nomenclature.
£30.00
Publisher
John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho.
Place
London
Date
1842
Synopsis
Historical. etymological and humorous. with chapters on rebuses and canting arms, the roll of battel abbey, a list of latinized surnames, etc. etc.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 x 5.25 inches. xxiv + [4] pp. list of Subscribers + 240 + 16 pp. publisher's list. Title page in red and black. Bound in original brown clothe with blind stamped decoration; Spine later rebacked, preserving original, with new endpapers. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by opening vignette and initial of preface and by publisher's device on title page. Fifteen essays on various categories of surnames, with additional chapters on rebuses and canting arms and Appendices on the Battle Abbey Roll (with transcripts from the copies of Leland, Holinshed and John Foxe), and on Latinized Surnames. Mark Antony Lower (1813-76) was a schoolteacher, antiquarian and historian of Sussex, author of The Sussex Martyrs (1851) and A Compendious History of Sussex (1870), and joint founder of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1844.
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