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Johnson, Samuel
Estimate
10,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Johnson, Samuel
- A Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar: and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755
- ink on paper
folio (424 x 257mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, titles printed in red and black, contemporary calf, red specked edges, gilt dentelles, spines gilt, rebacked, neat repairs to corners, slight worm hole to lower margin of last few leaves of volume 2, neat repair to margin of 20E2, type slightly faint on pages 20F1 verso and 20F2 recto in volume 2 (duplicate leaves from another copy also bound in)
Provenance
Rev. Henry Leigh Bennett, bookplates
Literature
PMM 201; Rothschild 1237; Courtney and Nichol Smith p.54
Catalogue Note
A near fine copy of the first great endeavour of English lexicography, the standard authority on the language for 150 years, and one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship of all time.