Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary Of The English Language - 1794 UK HB 10th Edn
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Samuel Johnson - A Dictionary of the English Language - 1794 UK Tenth edition published by T. Longman etc
The book is firmly bound in brown half-leather with matching cloth boards and simple gilt lettering and decoration to the spine, the binding probably dates from the late nineteenth century. The extremities are somewhat bumped and rubbed. The text block is lightly foxed and toned with minor damage, marking and creasing to the title page and a few of the earlier and later leaves, ...there are green endpapers and additional blanks front and rear, which are a little marked and creased.
A serviceable early example of Johnson's celebrated Dictionary.
The book is firmly bound in brown half-leather with matching cloth boards and simple gilt lettering and decoration to the spine, the binding probably dates from the late nineteenth century. The extremities are somewhat bumped and rubbed. The text block is lightly foxed and toned with minor damage, marking and creasing to the title page and a few of the earlier and later leaves, ...there are green endpapers and additional blanks front and rear, which are a little marked and creased.
A serviceable early example of Johnson's celebrated Dictionary.
