A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Bibliography

of Major Proverb Collections and Works cited from Modern Editions

Quotations are taken from the first edition of the work in question unless otherwise stated.
Standard modern editions of several major authors, particularly from the medieval and
Renaissance periods, have been used for ease of reference.

Major Proverb Collections

Apperson, G. L., English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (London, 1929).

Bohn, H. G., Hand-Book of Proverbs (London, 1855).

Carmichaell, J., James Carmichaell Collection of Proverbs in Scots, ed. M. L. Anderson

(Edinburgh, 1957).

[Clarke, J.,] Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina.. or Proverbs English, and Latine, methodically

disposed according to the Common-place heads, in Erasmus his Adages (London,

1639).

Denham, M. A., Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings relating to the seasons, the

weather, and agricultural pursuits (London, 1846).

Draxe, T., Bibliotheca Scholastica Instructissima, or, a Treasurie of ancient Adagies, and

sententious Prouerbes, selected out of the English, Greeke, Latine, French, Italian, and

Spanish (London, 1616).

Dykes, O., English Proverbs, with Moral Reflexions (London, 1709).

Fergusson, D., Fergusson’s Scottish Proverbs from the Original Print of 1641 together

with a larger Manuscript Collection of about the same period hitherto unpublished, ed.

E. Beveridge (Edinburgh, 1924).

Franklin, B., Poor Richard’s Almanack: Sayings of Poor Richard, ed. P. L. Ford

(Brooklyn, 1890).

Fuller, T., Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings,

Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (London, 1732).

Hart, Henry H., 700 Chinese Proverbs (Stanford, Calif. 1937).

Hassell, J. W., Jun., Middle French Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases

(Toronto, 1982).

Hazlitt, W. C., English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (London, 1869). Later editions

are also cited.

Henderson, A., Scottish Proverbs (Edinburgh, 1832).

H[erbert]., G., Outlandish Proverbs (1640), and Jacula Prudentum (1651), in Works, ed.

F. E. Hutchinson (Oxford, 1941).

Heywood, J., Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the

englishe tongue (London, 1546). Later editions are also cited.