Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Easton Press Collector's Edition)

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MERRIAM-WEBSTER, INC. (ed.-in-chief Philip Babcock Gove; founded upon the lexicographical work of Noah Webster). Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. Quarto. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers and spine. All edges decorated with red speckle. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 2,661, [i]pp. Collector's Edition. Originally published Springfield, Massachusetts: G. C. Merriam Company, 1961. Noah Webster (1758–1843) published his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828, the foundational act of American lexicography: a work that deliberately differentiated American English from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary, and that made the argument, in its prefatory material, that a democratic republic required its own linguistic identity. Webster's name became synonymous with the dictionary in the United States, and when Merriam-Webster's predecessors acquired the rights to his work after his death and began producing revised and expanded editions, the brand was established that has carried his name through every subsequent iteration of the enterprise. The Third New International Dictionary, published by G. C. Merriam in 1961 under the editorship of Philip Babcock Gove (1902–1972), was the most comprehensive and the most controversial dictionary ever published in the English langu

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