2003-01-23 08:04:19, Michael Everson <everson@...>
wrote:

[nb:]

>>This reminds me that I discovered a [source]book in our

local library published maybe 1890 or so that contained many
specimens of typeset "earlier" English, Anglo-Saxon, and
maybe Gaelic. The variety of typefaces was impressive, and
considering the old letters they contained, represented a
good amount of work.

>
>Reference?

Conceivably:

Corson, Hiram, 1828-1911. Hand-book of Anglo-Saxon and early
English / by Hiram Corson. Holt, [1882, c1871]

Bright, James Wilson, 1852-1926. An Anglo-Saxon reader, ed.,
with notes, a complete glossary, a chapter on versification
and an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar, by James W. Bright ...
H. Holt and Company, 1917.

Turk, Milton Haight, 1866- An Anglo-Saxon reader, by Milton
Haight Turk. C. Scribner's Sons [c1927]
(Date looks too recent -nb)


Also noted:

Cook, Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough), 1853-1927. A first
book of Old English : grammar, reader, notes, and vocabulary
/ by Albert S. Cook. Ginn & Company, 1894. (I don't think
this was the one. -nb)

URL that presented me with these, and many others --
Minuteman Library Network comprises many Eastern Mass.
libraries:

http://web2.mln.lib.ma.us/web2/tramp2.exe/see_hits/A052c1ht.0
04?server=4home&start=0

(Sorry about the wrap...)

I don't know whether that URL is good only for the session I
have open at the moment, though. Severe pruning of the URL
should get you the home page, or close to it. My search
termswere [old english language], constrained by "Book" and
"English", sorted ascending by date.

(Are there any international library loans?)

Regards,

HTH,

Nicholas Bodley ||@|| Waltham, Mass.
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