Buy this book on-line Johnson, Samuel : A Dictionary of the English Language (5 Volumes)Longman Hurst Rees Orme ..., London, 1818
Fine rebound complete set, 4to, unpag., A very clean set of the first Todd edition. "Todd made some additions to Johnson's grammar and history of language, extended Johnson's word list with obsolete and local terms and with derivatives and compounds, improved etymologies, added quotations where they were lacking and corrected some of those which had been given, but left the famous definitions pretty much unchanged" (Sledd & Kolb, p. 154). Engraved portrait of Johnson by Joshua Reynolds as frontispiece to the first volume. Full title reads as follows: "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: Together with A History of the Language, and an English Grammar" and "With numerous corrections, and with the addition of several thousand words, as also with additions to the history of the language, and to the grammar, by the Rev. H.J. Todd, M.A. F.S.A. In five volumes.", Rebound in maroon buckram with contrasting black spine labels Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Johnson, Samuel : A Dictionary of the English Language (5 Volumes). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres rares, antiquarian books, libri antichi and livres anciens. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |