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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.

Stock Code
107490
London, J. Johnson [and others], 1799
£1,850

A very attractive eighteenth century edition of Samuel Johnson's masterpiece, and the most famous dictionary of the English language.

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Description

The eighth edition; corrected and revised, 2 vols, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary diced russia, neatly rebacked preserving spines, an excellent set.

Bibliography

Alston V 191; Fleeman 55.4D/12.

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