An American Dictionary Of The English Language Containing The Whole Vocabulary Of The First

by Noah Webster

$950 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Springfield: George and Charles Merriam, 1848. First edition of the first Merriam-Webster dictionary; thick 4to, pp. lxxxiv, 1367; engraved frontispiece portrait after Samuel F.B. Morse; full original sheep, lacking spine label; the whole quite scuffed and rubbed, preliminaries foxed with one soil spot; previous ownership signature on front flyleaf has been neatly cut out; texblock very good and sound. Vancil, p. 262. Item #44590

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