Dictionary of the English Language; in Which The Words are Deducted from Their Originals; And illustrated in their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with A History of the language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson. With Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Severeal Thousand Words, as also with Additions to the History of the Language, and the Grammar by the Rev. H. J. Todd. In Three Volumes.

Full title: Dictionary of the English Language; in Which The Words are Deducted from Their Originals; And illustrated in their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with A History of the language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson. With Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words, as also with Additions to the History of the Language, and the Grammar by the Rev. H. J. Todd. In Three Volumes.

4to (9.25" x 11.25") 1827. Johnson, Samuel; Todd, H. J. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, and Green. Second Edition. Full brown calf with gilt rule frame to each cover. Spine with five raised gilt bordered bands, gilt title and vol# on black leather in second and third compartments, ornate gilt Arabesque devices to all others. Corners bumped and rubbed, edgewear. A beautiful set of this important dictionary, most significant for the way it stimulated lexicography, raised the status and interest of the dictionary as a literary and cultural artifact, and generated new genres of dictionary.

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