A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals …The seventh edition

by Samuel Johnson

$2,800 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for J.F. & C. Rivington, L. Davis, et al. , 1785. Folio, pp. 1150 ; lexicon in triple column; engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson engraved by Thomas Cook after Reynolds, published by Longmans, March 23rd 1787. The portrait is described by Fleeman as a late addendum for the weekly subscribers ; boards scuffed, else generally a very good, sound copy in 19th-century mottled calf neatly rebacked. This folio edition was printed to

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