Skeat, W W.
Cambridge University Press.
1911.
Hardback.
ix, 139 pages, with folding plate at rear. 125 x 170mm. In original red cloth with decorative upper cover- spine faded from red to pink. With owners bookplate on front paste-down endpaper- from the library of William Bell Jones F.S.A. of Hawarden 1868-1958, Hon. Secretary of the Flintshire Historical Society, 1921-1951. Flintshire Record Office 1958. With a neat ink stamp from that Office on the front free end-paper. Walter William Skeat (21 November 1835 6 October 1912), FBA, was the pre-eminent British philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. Skeat was the founder and only president of the English Dialect Society from 1873 to 1896.The society's purpose was to collect materials for the publication of The English Dialect Dictionary.