A COPIOUS GLOSSARY, ILLUSTRATED BY AUTHORITIES FROM ANCIENT AND EXEMPLIFIED BY TWO FAMILIAR DIALOGUES. BY A NATIVE OF CRAVEN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. THE SECOND EDITION, MUCH ENLARGED. "What a feaful girt gauvison mun he be, at frames to larn'th' talk of ANON. O little booke, thou art so unconning, CHAUCER. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WM. CROFTS, 59, CAREY-STREET, AND ROBINSON AND HERNAMAN, LEEDS. TO THE REV. H. J. TODD, M. A., F.S. A. & M.R.S. L. CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY, And Rector of Settrington, County of York. REV. SIR, Though a humble gleaner in the field of Philology, in which you have exerted yourself with so much energy and success, I feel anxious to dedicate the Craven Dialect to you, who having been long engaged in similar pursuits, are so fully competent to appreciate its merits, if it possesses any, and, I trust, candid enough to criticise with forbearance its numerous defects. Gratified by your approval of the first, I have only to hope that I may not lose your good opinion in the second edition of this work. I am, Rev. Sir, Your respectful and obliged Servant, March 31, 1828. THE AUTHOR. |