• Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - spine and front board
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - rear board and spine
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - marbled page edges
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - marbled page edges
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - front marbled endpapers
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - title page
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - copyright page
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - first page of quotations
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - interior pages
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - interior pages
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - interior pages
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - interior pages
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - index pages
  • Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1883 Little Brown Eighth Edition half leather - rear marbled endpapers
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and Phrases in Common Use

Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and Phrases in Common Use

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Book Notes: Brown half leather with marbled boards; heavy wear to the leather, with rubbing, scuffs and worn corners. The spine title label is missing. Marbled edges and endpapers. Binding is tight; the front free endpaper is detached. Pages are clean, with no writing or markings.

Author(s): John Bartlett
Edition: Eighth Edition

Publication year: 1883

Binding: Half Leather

Language: English

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Condition: Good
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John Bartlett's collection of familiar quotations, which traces passages and phrases in common use back to their sources. Bartlett, a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookseller who later became a partner at Little, Brown, first printed the collection in 1855. Quotations are arranged by author in order of birth, with a keyword index.

Eighth Edition. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1883; copyright 1882 by John Bartlett. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

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