1964-5 The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, Part One, The River- and Road-Names, The East Cotswolds, and, The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, Part Two, The North and West Cotswolds, and, The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, Part Three, The Lower Severn Valley, The Forest of Dean, and, The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, Part Four, Introduction, Bibliography, Analyses, Index.

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of each work in this four volume set. The titles of these four volumes are: Part I, The River- and Road-Names, The East Cotswolds (published 1964) ; Part Two, The North and West Cotswolds, (published 1964) ; Part Three, The Lower Severn Valley, The Forest of Dean (published 1964) ; Part Four, Introduction, Bibliography, Analyses, Index (published 1965). 

With the original unclipped dust wrappers. 

With seven maps of Gloucestershire in a pocket attached to the rear pastedown of Part IV. These are: a larger paper map of forty of the Gloucestershire Hundreds; a map of Gloucestershire geology; six maps linguistically comparing place names in Gloucestershire before 1500 and later, which divide the county into the Saltways, Roman Roads, and areas of Land over six hundred feet.

Part I, Part II and Part IV all bearing the mark of George's Park Street, Bristol to the front pastedown.

Uncommonly found as a complete set thus. 

Albert Hugh Smith was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages who wished to encourage greater interest in the study of English place names. These four volumes offer an incredibly detailed survey of the place names in the Gloucestershire area and an impression of their linguistic heritage.