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Roxburgh   Listen
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Roxburgh  n.  A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roxburgh" Quotes from Famous Books



... Post-Restoration days a ballad sung in the streets by two persons was frequently called a Jig, presumably because it was a 'song in dialogue'. Numerous examples are to be found amongst the Roxburgh Ballads. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... Goddington fair; and, indeed, there are few families, on either side of the border, who have not both English and Scotch blood in their veins. It is natural we should be friends, seeing how often we have held Berwick, Roxburgh, and Dumfries; and how often, in times of peace, Scotchmen come across the border to trade at the fairs. Why should it not be so, when we speak the same tongue and, save for the border line, are one people? Though, indeed, it is different in Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty

... his talents, which are considerable, and his opportunities, which are great, to better account." Others, however, gave him encouragement. See, for instance, a review by J.H. Markland, who afterwards made his name as editor of the Roxburgh Club issue of the Chester Mysteries (whence, perhaps, Byron derived his knowledge of "Mysteries and Moralities"), which concludes thus: "Heartily hoping that the 'illness and depression of spirits,' which evidently pervade the greater ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... Address to the reader, signed. Halliwell, who reprinted the collection for the Percy Society in 1848, from the present copy, supposed it to be unique. Another, however, formerly in the Roxburgh, is now in ...
— Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge • W. W. Greg



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