A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

by Samuel Johnson

$12,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition of this epochal work, described by Noah Webster as having accomplished in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics quoted in PMM . Very good. Item #54744 When Johnson began work on the dictionary, he was at one of the lowest points of his career:

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