ENGLISH SURNAMES ESSAYS ON FAMILY NOMENCLATURE. Historical. Etymological and Humorous. With Chapters on Rebuses and Canting Arms, The Roll of Battel Abbey, A List of Latinized Surnames, etc. etc.

LOWER, MARK ANTONY.

Edité par John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho., London, 1842

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 x 5.25 inches. xxiv + [4] pp. list of Subscribers + 240 + 16 pp. publisher's list. Title page in red and black. Bound in original brown clothe with blind stamped decoration; Spine later rebacked, preserving original, with new endpapers. Illustrated by engraved text figures. Decorated by opening vignette and initial of preface and by publisher's device on title page. Fifteen essays on various categories of surnames, with additional chapters on rebuses and canting arms and Appendices on the Battle Abbey Roll (with transcripts from the copies of Leland, Holinshed and John Foxe), and on Latinized Surnames. Mark Antony Lower (1813-76) was a schoolteacher, antiquarian and historian of Sussex, author of The Sussex Martyrs (1851) and A Compendious History of Sussex (1870), and joint founder of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1844. GENEALOGY SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY GENEALOGY 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED GENEALOGY.

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• Titre: ENGLISH SURNAMES ESSAYS ON FAMILY NOMENCLATURE. Historical. Etymological and Humorous. With Chapters on Rebuses and Canting Arms, The Roll of Battel Abbey, A List of Latinized Surnames, etc. etc.
• Éditeur: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho., London
• Date de parution: 1842