Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Originally put together in 1870 by Dr Brewer, this reference work provides the history of phrases, an account of figures in myth and history or an outline of the significance of historic terms in religion, magic, philosophy, literature, geography, mathematics and the sciences. The reference also includes a miscellany of knowledge, such as traditional cries of animals, lists of dwarfs and giants in myth and history, patron saints and much more.