An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

$22,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, 1828. First edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, with the Additions and Corrections leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent, as is nearly always the case. Engraved frontis provided in sympathetic facsimile, lacking tissue guard. Internally Very Good

• Binding: Leather

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