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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 Language, and an English Grammar. The Sixth Edition.

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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 Language, and an English Grammar. The Sixth Edition.

de Johnson, Samuel

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London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, [et al.], 17886. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary calf neatly rebacked (hardcover, leather), calf labels. Fine engraved portrait (dated 1786, as always, and executed during printing process). This edition contains the original Preface, History of the English Language, &c., and the Advertisement to the Fourth Edition. Good; joints tender, some shelf wear, title labels chipped, spines discolored (by a light-colored leather dressing?), text clean and crisp, bearing the bookplate of J. D. Barnard.

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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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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 Language, and an English Grammar. The Sixth Edition.
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Johnson, Samuel
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Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, [et al.], 17886.
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London
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[]17886
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Linguistics, Language, Dictionary.
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