A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

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First edition

First edition. xxiii, 1 , 408 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece, worn. Lacks endpapers. Usual browning, a few tears extending from the fore-edge margin. Skeel 577; Sabin 102347. Item #371118 The first edition of Webster’s first Dictionary, and the first truly American dictionary, notable for the inclusion of many words in common usage but omitted from earlier lexicons, and

• Binding: Leather

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