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. By Samuel Johnson.

Accession number

PML 9906-07

Creator

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Published

London, Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [etc.] 1755.

Notes

Second ed. sheets bound up with t.p.'s of the first ed.

Description

2v. 42 cm.

Provenance

Toovey collection; the R.S. Turner copy; With the arms of Senac Radziwill on the covers, probably a remboîtage.

Binding

French 18th-century green morocco by Derome le Jeune (?), with the arms of Senac Radziwill, probably a remboîtage.

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