Author: EDITORS Title: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable - Revised & Enlarged
Description: Harper & Brothers, ca 1953. Hardcover. Undated. 977 pages. Pages have no writing, age yellowing on pages and endpapers. Good binding, outer edges have stains. Contains pharases, superstitions, etc mentioned in mythologies of the world, superstitions and customs - ancient and modern, etymology, archaeology terms and events, legends, etc. Examples include: Nouns of Assemblage, Between two stool you fall to the ground, Castle in the Air, Mad as a March Hare, The lion in Heraldry, Tarred and feathered, etc. Last page state A. M. D. G;. Fair with no dust jacket .
Keywords: English Language - Terms and Phrases Dictionaries Mythology Dictionary Superstitions Tarred and Feathered His Heart Was in His Mouth Furcam Et Flagellum Boar's Head Alexander and the Robber
Price: US$ 10.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 22560
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