The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honorable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State

by Samuel Johnson

$7,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell et al. , 1747. First edition, second state without Chesterfield's name on A1 recto , 4to, pp. 2 , 34; slightly later full calf, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; title page a bit spotted, especially along the fore-edge; all else very good. Leaf size approx. 9 x 7¼ . Late 19th- or early 20th-century bookplate of William Willis / Temple 1835-1911, an English barrister,

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