A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS, AND ILLLUSTRATED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITERS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED A HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. TWO VOLUMES. 1799.

JOHNSON, Samuel.

Edité par Printed For J. Johnson, C. Dilly, Et Al, London,, 1799

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Eighth Edition, Corrected And Revised. Small quartos. Two volume set. Quartos (9 x 11 inches), unpaginated. Half-titles in each volume, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in Volume 1. First volume consists of half-title, title, the author's preface (printed in single column), a History of the English language followed by a Grammar of English (both printed in two columns), followed by the Dictionary (text in three columns); second volume contains a half-title, title, and the rest of the great dictionary. Recently rebound in half light brown speckled calf with 5 raised bands / marbled boards lettered in gilt on red and black spine labels. Prelims slight foxed o/w with clean text. Decent very good indeed attractive copies.

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• Titre: A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS, AND ILLLUSTRATED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITERS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED A HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. TWO VOLUMES. 1799.
• Éditeur: Printed For J. Johnson, C. Dilly, Et Al, London,
• Date de parution: 1799
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good