The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs

by Frank Percy Wilson, Joanna B. Wilson

A comprehensive dictionary of proverbs in all their variant forms from the earliest recorded use, with generous cross-referencing and precise identification of sources.

Genres: Reference

950 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1970

About the author

Frank Percy Wilson FBA was a British literary scholar and bibliographer. Author of many works on Elizabethan drama and general editor of the Oxford History of English Literature, Wilson was Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1947 to 1957.