An unfinished letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt, concerning the new Dictionary of the English Language

by Herbert Croft, Rev

$1,600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

London: printed in March, 1788, but neither finished nor published. First edition, 8vo, pp. 2 , 44, 8 ; later gray paper-covered boards. This copy inscribed on the title-page: From the author. Small correction in ink on E2 which is likely authorial. Courtney & Smith, p. 69: On p. 44 is the following note: As the printer was not able to put together any more of what I wrote yesterday se'nnight than these forty-four pages, and the following seven pages

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