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The work was supposedly published, ergo there could be expected to be more than a single copy, it was not something scribed by hand. This makes me wonder if there are any other known works of which there is only a single known copy surviving. That would make a fascinating "see also" to this article, if such a list of one-surviving-copy of books were compiled. Damotclese (talk) 02:09, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
For some reason this wasn't on my watchlist. Anyway, coming back to it now, I believe the article has been eviscerated. What was I thought a fascinating word mystery, has become utterly prosaic, with all of what should be the the up-front material summarized to its bare bones or moved to an afterthought. The focus is now all wrong. That is not to say that there has not been some good additions, but the removals and reorganization of the material is all wrong. I will not simply revert, but I do plan to completely change this back to what it was, and then work in the new material.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:25, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
This comment at MetaFilter on the 1854 auction:
jnestorius(talk) 15:22, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
My optimistic theory from the cited 1893 Bazaar, Exchange and Mart is that the questioner "Gandy" had inherited four books previously owned by their collateral ancestor, Edward Gandy. Of the books, Meanderings of Memory was one, two were Napoleonic history, and the fourth was written under the pseudonym "One of Us" by Edward Gandy. It seems plausible that Edward Gandy might also have used the pseudonym "Nightlark". One might compare the language in the NED snippets from Meanderings of Memory with the language in Gandy's known works:
Edward Gandy (1785[1]/1788?[2]–14 June 1859[3]) was from Plymouth[3][4]
jnestorius(talk) 00:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Cooper[1] includes some vocab reminiscent of the NED words:
un-NOUN-ed | unshooned unsceptered unspelled Unaffrayed unlensed unorganed unhatted |
un-VERB-ed | uncaused unawed unendued undismayed uncommemorated ungainsayed undischarged unbeguiled unimpelled unviewed unbeshrined unannoyed unblamed unchastened |
un-PASTPART | unrent unstung unblent |
un-ADJ | unchaste uncognisant unskilful unlyric unrife unpitiful |
un-VERB | uncloud undistract |
un-NOUN (v.) | unwomb ungear |
un-NOUN (n.) | unlikeness |
-like | hearse-like dirge-like stone-like dome-like Elijah-like |
-ize | dogmatize Anatomize eternize gormandizing |
-lessness | dreadlessness guiltlessness raylessness |
re- | re-enthrone re-endow re-enjoy re-impart re-enthral |
jnestorius(talk) 11:55, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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