Book #59302

Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

John and Bartlett, Emily Morison Beck

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Eleventh Printing
Publisher: Boston, Toronto, ET AL: Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
ISBN: 0316082759

Price: $50.00

A Nearly Fine Later Printing with some creasing to the pages throughout and some inking and an elementary school stamp to the front flyleaf in a generally worn Very Good+ dust-jacket.

This book includes familiar quotations from ancient and modern literature, all of which are traced to their sources. It is a great resource for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to know more about the origins of famous quotations.; 8vo; 1540 pages.