Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The sixteenth edition of this reference on phrase and fable. Each entry has been re-read for this edition and updated where necessary. There are over a million words of text, 18,500 main entries and tens of thousands of sub-entries. This edition contains 1000 entirely new entries.
Adrian Room, who has revised the millennium edition of Brewer's, is the author of over 50 popular reference books, mainly on the origins of words. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society. He lives in Lincolnshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780304358731 |
| ISBN 10 | 0304358738 |
| Title | Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable |
| Author | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2001-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 1326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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