A Dictionary of the English Language (Volume one)
London: Printed for J. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson, R. Baldwin, [et al.], 1806.
Price: $700.00
Hardcover. The Ninth edition, corrected and revised. Volume one only (of two). Thick quarto. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait plate. Contemporary full calf, all edges marbled. Owner's signature in neat ink on the front flyleaf. The binding is worn, with the front board and preliminary gathering both neatly detached, else a very good copy of this classic work.
Item #173822
Samuel Johnson
birth name:
born: 9/18/1709
died: 12/13/1784
Biography
English poet, essayist, critic, journalist, lexicographer, and conversationalist, regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century life and letters. His A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1755), was the first major English dictionary to use illustrative historical quotations. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore