Dr. Johnson and Noah Webster: Two Men & Their Dictionaries

by Leaf Book, David Littlejohn

$75 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. 4to, 86 pp. With illustrations and two original leaves inserted. Quarter blue cloth and paper boards with gold decoration on front & back covers; leather & gilt title label. Bookplate. Very good with original prospectus laid in. § Limited to 500 copies designed and printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Illustrated with a matched pair of original leaves from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson,

• Printing: later

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