BARTLETT, JOHN — Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use (Author's Edition)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, [c.1970s]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0710010567. An undated UK edition (likely c.1970s) of John Barlett's famous compilation of notable quotations. The phrases are grouped by author, such as William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson or Jonathan Swift. Includes a section of quotations from the Old and New Testaments. Key words indexed at back of volume. --- In rust cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in simple pale yellow typographic dust jacket. --- The typeface is rather small in this edition, with prior owner's embossed circular stamp half title page, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Jacket flap has been clipped, but the £2.00 net price is intact, and with a couple of tears at crease points; else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 524 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .