A view of the Lancashire dialect; by way of dialogue, between Tummus o'William's, o'Margit o'Roaph's, and Meary o'Dick's, o'Tummy o'Peggy's. Shewing, in that speech, the comical adventures and misfortunes of a Lancashire clown. To which is prefix'd (by away of preface) a dialogue between the author and his pamphlet. With a glossary of all the Lancashire words and phrases therein used. By Tim. Bobbin, Fellow of the Sisyphian Society of Dutch Loom Weavers, and an old adept in the dialect

People / Organizations

• Tim Bobbin (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for and sold by J. Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in Ludgate-street, and W. Stuart, bookseller, in Wigan, [1750?] The fourth edition, corrected, and very much improv'd, with an addition of above five hundred Lancashire words, not in the first impression.; ..

Added name

Robinson, Jacob, -1759, bookseller.

Publication year

1750

ESTC No.

T131803

Grub Street ID

180775

Description

vii,[1],32,[24]p. ; 12°.

Note

Tim. Bobbin = John Collier

Date of publication from Alston

A piracy? Cf. Author's note in 1757 edition (ESTC T117274): The edition of this pamphlet printed for Stuart of Preston, and Robinson at the Golden-Lyon, London; ... are all spurious, rob the author, and impose on the public

Alston wrongly identifies format as 18]0

Below imprint: (Price sixpence.); With 24 pages of glossary

With woodcut head- and tailpieces

Signatures: A-E]6] F]2.