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Fact, fancy, and fable; a new handbook for ready reference on subjects commonly omitted from cyclopaedias; comprising personal sobriquets, familiar phrases, popular appellations, geographical nicknames, literary pseudonyms, mythological characters, red-letter days, political slang, contractions and abbreviations, technical terms, foreign words and phrases, Americanisms, etc. Comp. by Henry Frederic Reddall.

Title:Fact, fancy, and fable; a new handbook for ready reference on subjects commonly omitted from cyclopaedias; comprising personal sobriquets, familiar phrases, popular appellations, geographical nicknames, literary pseudonyms, mythological characters, red-letter days, political slang, contractions and abbreviations, technical terms, foreign words and phrases, Americanisms, etc. Comp. by Henry Frederic Reddall.
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Note:A.C McClurg, 1892
  
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Subject:Dictionaries
Subject:English language -- Terms and phrases
Subject:Terms and phrases
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