A Shakespeare Glossary,

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1929 impression of the 1919 second edition. Cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 20 cm,. xii, 259, [1] pp, double-column format. From the preface: "The aim of the Shakespeare glossary now presented to the reader is to supply definitions and illustrations of words or senses of words now obsolete or surviving only in provincial or archaic use, together with explanations of others involving allusions not generally familiar, and of proper names carrying with them some connotative signification or offering special interest or difficulty in the passages in which they occur. Senses still current in general literature have also been occasionally illustrated, chiefly where there is contextual obscurity, or where it seemed desirable, for one reason or another, to give a complete conspectus of a word that has many ramifications of meaning. Words of this last class have received very diverse treatment according to the circumstances of their usage; but a feature common to the greater number of them is the introduction of the scheme of meanings by a statement indicating how far Shakespeare's uses are those of his contemporaries or are peculiar to him,what senses are first exemplified- as far as present evidence shows- in his works or in those of Elizabethan writers generally, what is the relative frequency of the various uses, or suppying information of a more general character as to their status or origin. Name and date on front free endpaper, slightly agetoned, Good.