1852 A Dictionary of the English Language

Description

Leather Binding, Signed Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce edition of Johnson's important work. In the mid nineteenth century, this work was more commonly found in abridged pocket sized editions.

'A Dictionary of the English Language' is one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. 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.

In a signed half calf binding from Baker and Son, Clifton.

With the bookplate of H. V. C. Riley-Smith to the front pastedown.

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.