A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar
A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. 1775. Hardback. First Dublin edition. First published in quarto. 2 volumes complete. Double-columned. Rebound in dark green leather with five banded spine, red leather label with title in gilt and with volume details and gilt floral decoration to spine. Small nick to spine volume I. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Red page edges. Title page on Volume I held together in sellotape, partial missing, else Volume I lightly toned and showing light wear, text is clear and crisp and remains fine. Volume II small water stain bottom title page, else lightly toned, text is clear and remains fine. Noting condition to title page Volume I and owner's bookplate, remains a fine set.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Publisher:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown
Published:
1818
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14208941787
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Good Minus. 4to. 4 vols in early 20th century binding; black half-leather with gilt titles to spine, mottled paper covered boards, and marbled endpapers. Boards lightly rubbed and scratched with chipping to edges. Some rubbing to bottom of front board of vol 3. Unfortunately there is water staining and wrinkling to the bottom half of the pages throughout all four textblocks, visible on closed edges also, however, on many pages the staining is light, and barely noticeable on some pages, and the text remains clean and crisp. Hinges cracked but textblocks remain solid.
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Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall All three volumes are calf bound with red calf title plates on spine. Vol I spine has top 1" missing and detached on one side. Vol II has similar piece missing from top of spine with split along one side. Vol III has split down one side of spine. All contents have light foxing through prelims. Contents are all clean and flat. Price is for the three volumes.
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None. Good. An early Dublin edition of this English writer and lexicographer's celebrated dictionary. 'The Fourth Edition, Revised by the Author'. With 'A History of the Language, and an English Grammar'. Complete in two volumes. Johnson's dictionary ran through five editions during his lifetime. Of these, the fourth stands out for having been extensively revised by Johnson. Rebacked in calf, with the original boards, and the original spine laid down. Volume I has modern endpapers. Externally, rubbed to extremities. Front board of Volume II detached but present. Rear joint of Volume II starting. Internally, firmly bound, with age toning prominent to page edges. Intermittent foxing, with the odd ink or handling mark. Volume I has occasional marginal tidemarks, not affecting text. The upper margins of both titlepages have been previously excised to remove ink inscriptions. Overall: generally GOOD but needing the front board of Volume II reattaching. Good.
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None. Very Good. A striking and important edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language, the first complete edition to be printed in Ireland. The first edition thus, being the first quarto edition and first complete edition printed in Ireland. This printing is based on the fourth London folio edition of 1773, a conclusive edition which was the only one for which Johnson provided any additions or corrections. ESTC citation number T117233. Complete in two volumes.  List of subscribers to the front of Volume I.  Collated, complete. 'A Dictionary of the English Language' is one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, and was the pre-eminent English dictionary under the 'Oxford English Dictionary' was completed one-hundred and seventy-three years after Johnson's was published. Johnson took around seven years to complete this dictionary, and worked on it single-handedly. 'A History of the Language' and 'An English Grammar' are prefixed. Volume I includes A-K, Volume II includes L-Z. Samuel Johnson was a noted English author of the eighteenth century, well perceived in his friend James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson', which is considered to be one of the most important biographies ever written. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards restored. Externally, smart. Evidence of former loss to the joints prior to rebacking. Light bumping to the extremities. Some minor marks and a little rubbing to the boards. Gilt to the spines is rubbed. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional spot. Faint tide mark to the title page of Volume I, with a larger tide mark to the first few pages of Volume II. Very Good.
Publisher:
London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, J. Dodsley, J. Robson, C...
Published:
1794
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15269842041
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Good. 10th ed. Contemporary full calf binding. Hinges cracked. Boards starting. Early printed book plate of F. Cunliffe. Signature of H.B. Mitchell. Clean, unmarked pages.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Eighth edition. Two volumes, expertly repaired and leather reconditioned. Brown leather, raised bands with gilt lettering and red trim on spines, corners somewhat bumped, lower edges show some shelf wear, leather in general shows light scuffing and other wear. Page edges tanned. Bindings tight, modern end pages added, text pages somewhat tanned and lightly foxed but clean, no markings. Unpaginated. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. insurance and tracking. This set will require significant extra postage for priority or international shipment.
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Very Good. Size: upto12"tall/; 1819 Maxwell 2 volume quarto set in pebbled leather red and gilt decorated spines, 5 raised hubs small amount of contemporary ink to endpaper and title page volume 1. Pages show age tone but overall are in very good shape. First unabridged American edition. ferg oversized and overweight Please email for photos.
Edition:
First Unabridged American edition from the 11th London edition
Publisher:
Moses Thomas
Published:
1818
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17572525192
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4to, 2 large volumes, unpaginated. Bound in full calf, elaborately stamped in gilt (worn at the extremities of the spine, weak on the hinges. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in volume 1. AEG, With an ownership signature of George Plitt from 1824 and a note by his son John that the set was rebound in 1849. Waterstain to the inner margin of the half-title and title-page of volume two. Generally a very good set. Shaw and Shoemaker 44473; Printing and the Mind of Man, 201 (ref). " Begun in 1747 and printed over five years, Johnson's Dictionary set the standard for all subsequent lexicographical work. Its excellence was immediately recognized in all quarters and the first edition of two thousand copies sold quickly. What set Johnson's Dictionary apart from earlier efforts was his reliance on the examples of English literature rather than his own intuition or previous word lists or dictionaries, a method that has been the standard ever since, from Richardson and Webster to the Oxford English Dictionary. Johnson, in undertaking this vast work, set out to perform singlehanded for the English language what the French Academy, a century before, had attempted for French. He hoped to produce "a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed, and its attainment facilitated; " and though, of course, no language can be frozen in time, by aiming at fixing the language he succeeded in giving the standard of reputable use. As Noah Webster stated, his work "had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics." Johnson presumed to finish the work for the Dictionary in three years by his own labor, but he underestimated the work required and it eventually took nine years to complete (though not all of his time was spent upon the Dictionary, as he was also the editor of The Rambler at this time) and required the assistance of six amanuenses--five of whom, to Boswell's satisfaction, were Scotsmen. "Johnson's achievement marked an epoch in the history of the language. The result of nine years labor, it did more than any other work before or since towards fixing the language. The preface ranks among Johnson's finest writings. The most amazing, enduring, and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" [Printing and the Mind of Man].