Eilert Ekwall — English River-Names

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a comprehensive encyclopedia on the etymology of England's rivers, in the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of English River-Names, an encyclopedia of English rivers and their etymology, written by Swedish linguist Eilert Ekwall.  In the publisher's original cloth, in the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The book was a project of the author for a number of years, spending his free-time away from lectures studying Old English sources on to decipher the names of its various rivers. Ekwall later published numerous works on English place-names, from streets, to places, and to people. In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, A couple of white marks to rear board extremities, and the faint handling mark. Fading to the spine, and to the extremities, with a faint green patch to the tail of the spine. Chips to dust wrapper edges, including a large chip to the tail of the wrapper spine. Fading to dust wrapper spine. End papers are generally bright and clean with the odd small spot. Previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with minor age toning to leaf extremities. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good Only.