A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And

by Samuel Johnson Dr

$15,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, title pages in red and black, lexicon in double column; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 8 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; spines worn and much of the lettering rubbed away, the whole sometime rebacked with the old spines laid down; 4 tear entering from the fore-margin

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