A new dictionary of the English language
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First edition
London: William Pickering, 1836-37. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. 4 , 1183, 1 ; 4 , 1185-2222, 1 ; recent red cloth, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke ... His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology
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