Four-and-twenty blackbirds /
Twenty-four short stories, set in the English countryside, which give new interpretations of the origins of such well-known proverbial sayings as "Never say die" and "Look before you leap."
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Duckworth,
1915.
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| Summary: | Twenty-four short stories, set in the English countryside, which give new interpretations of the origins of such well-known proverbial sayings as "Never say die" and "Look before you leap." |
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| Item Description: | The leaf of plates is a mounted frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements: 13 pages at end. The Cushing Library/Lit./Thomas copy includes David Garnett's bookplate. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 111, 13 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 color illustrations ; 21 cm. |