A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals ... the fourth edition, revised

by the author by Samuel Johnson

$2,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Dublin: Thomas Ewing, 1775. First quarto edition and first complete edition printed in Ireland; 2 vols., pp. 70 plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; full contemporary calf, red and black gilt spine labels; hinges cracking, boards a bit scuffed; modern endpapers, Vol. I title page mounted and laid down, edges torn not affecting text, preliminaries dampstained, else a very good, sound set; based on the fourth London folio printed in 1773, and the only

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