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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON 1755-1756 SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES

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[JOHNSON, SAMUEL]. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar. Published in London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, MDCCLV - MDCCLVI. [1755 - 1756].

The second edition [so stated]. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Large folios (430 x 270 mm.). Unpaginated. English text in double columns. Rebound in quarter leather retaining the original spines, with paper-covered boards, smooth spines gilt with twin morocco lettering-pieces. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces. Condition: Good to very good. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges intact. Interiors well-preserved; couple of neat marginal repairs and creases, some light browning, neat contemporary inked signatures to head of titles. Overall excellent. Scarce thus.

Notes: THE SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST STANDARD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. "Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (PMM).
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