Dictionary of the English Language
de JOHNSON, Samuel
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1818. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. Phila.: Moses Thomas, 1818. 4to. 2 Vols. 1st American ed. Portrait frontis. Rebound in period style full leather, gilt-ornamented with raised spine bands. Light scattered foxing and toning, upper free corner of leaf CIR/CIR torn out, else a very good copy. The first American edition from the eleventh London edition. Johnson's was not the first dictionary of English, but its ground- breaking use of examples from literature made it the example that all later dictionaries followed including Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary. Though this edition of Johnson's Dictionary appeared in a four-volume octavo edition (1818-1819), the quarto edition is far less common and more desirable.
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Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.
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- Dictionary of the English Language
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- JOHNSON, Samuel
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- Fecha de publicación
- 1818
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- DICTIONARIES, LITX
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