Dissertations On The English Language With Notes Historical And Critical To Which Is Added An

by Noah Webster

$2,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co., 1789. First edition, 8vo, pp. 410, full orig. sheep, neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn, else a very good, sound copy. A seminal work, dedicated to Benjamin Franklin, in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English, and particularly its orthography, the reform of which grew out of

• Binding: Leather

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