FOWLER, H.W. & F.G. FOWLER (editors) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1946, 8°, third edition reprinted, contemporary brown fine-grained calf gilt, front cover with alphabetical motif, the 24 letters arranged in a circle repeated three times, each circle dissected by a stylised quill and with a large "A" at the centre on green morocco onlay, the back cover with symmetrical decoration, only with a "Z" on the onlays as opposed to an "A," spine in six gilt-tooled and lettered compartments, one containing the letters "A" and "Z."