- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
- Find Related Materials
Palmer, A. Smythe: Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, 1882
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Broadside, 4to (260 mm.); prospectus for this and one other title, Palmer's "Leaves from a Word-hunter's Note Book: being some Contributions in English Etymology". Edges worn with shallow tears and discoloration; previous fold.
- Arrangement
Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.
- General
Author: Palmer, A. Smythe
Dublin: Bell and Sons
Collection History
- Processing Information
Finding aid created via automated processes by Regine Heberlein, 2017.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Palmer, A. Smythe: Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy; Collection of Ephemera Relating to the Marketing of Books, RBD2, Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (ex): Box B-000869
