The Wellspring of Literary Allusion and Cliché
A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects.
Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855.
Price: $950.00
About the item
First edition. vii, [viii, errata], 295 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, spine titled in gilt. Two scuffs to spine, front flyleaf excised; faint traces of damp to fore edge of a few leaves. Very good. Morocco backed folding box. Grolier Hundred 64.
Item #376264
Attractive copy of the first edition of this cornerstone of shared cultural references, which went through nine editions in the compiler’s lifetime.
