A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals … to which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar
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Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1818. First complete American edition, first issue; heavily abridged versions in miniature format and bearing no resemblance to Johnson's original had appeared as early as 1804 ; 2 volumes, thick quartos, complete with the half-titles and the engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson after Reynolds; vol. I: 124 & unpaginated lexicon in triple column, collating π² b⁴ C⁴ D² E-Q⁴ R² A-6X⁴; vol. II:
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