Antique, ten volume set of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society." Includes from A - Z. From the private collection of Robert Fishburn's family. First volume published in 1888 by Oxford at the Clarendon Press of England and edited by James A. H. Murray. In fair/good condition.

These encyclopedias are regarded as "the greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship," by local historical archivists.