Edited by Rev. H. Percy Smith

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883.

First U.S. edition.

The classic Glossary of Terms and Phrases for the English language, edited by British pastor and scholar Rev. H. Percy Smith (1825-1898) of Balliol College, Oxford. Quite comprehensive, it contains etiology and definitions of many words and phrases in use in the late 19th century. A pertinent contemporary example from the book might be:

Surveillance. [Fr., from L. super, and vigilare, to watch.]  Inspection, watching.

Words from the sciences are also included.

Rev. Smith is probably best known for composing the music to the hymn, "O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee".

Textured medium chocolate brown pebbled cloth with black-stamped border on front and gilt-stamped titles to spine. Floral-design endpapers. Pages have red-dye edging.

Small chip to the lower spine, otherwise a remarkably fresh, near fine copy with clean white text.

A GREAT EXAMPLE OF LATE 19TH CENTURY BOOK MAKING.

Quarto: (6-3/4" by 9-7/8")

521 pages, plus 20 pages of publisher's advertisements.

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