€180
Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language; 2 vols facsimile: red Cabra bonded leather with gold & green foil blocking, spinebands, edges red, folio, 43 cm, ; booklets: printed wrappers; facsimile: 2 vols of 1160 pp each in the publisher’s cloth slipcase; booklets ; 34 pp and 16 pp. This is the impressive Longman Group 1990 facsimile (reproducing their original edition of 1755) of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. Two volumes (A-K and L-Z), together with two accompanying booklets, namely (1) A facsimile of The Plan of a Dictionary of the Englìsh Language by Samuel Johnson and (2) two introductory essays: The Genesis of Johnson's Dictionary bv Dr David Fleeman, and The Lexicographic Achievement of Johnson by Dr Brian O'Kill.
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