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167. JOHN, Augustus. fifty-two drawings. George Rainbird. 1957. folio., original buckram. A little spotting to buckram otherwise a very good copy.


£148


first edition. With an introduction by lord david cecil. the lithograph self portrait frontispiece was printed direct from the plate at the curwen press, the plates were printed in photo-litho offset by van leer of Amsterdam.


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168. JOHNSON, Samuel. A dictionary of the english language: in which the Words are deduced from their originals ... to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an english grammar ... Printed by W. Strahan, for A. Millar [et al.]. 1765.


£4,500


folio. 2 vols. twentieth century brown cambridge binding, spines tooled in gilt and blind divided in to seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces to second compartments, green morocco lettering pieces to fourth compartments; unpaginated; titles printed in red and black; one or two wormholes to bottom margins in both volumes, a little bumping to bottom corner of leaves towards end of vol ii, otherwise very clean and bright, very good.


third edition. “1,024 copies were printed in may, 1765 this edition was published to coincide with Johnson’s edition of shakespeare which appeared in october 1765, and for which it supplied a good deal of glossarial matter”


“mAny fAults i hAve corrected, some superfluities i hAve tAken AWAy, And some deficiencies i hAve supplied?”


169. JOHNSON, Samuel. A dictionary of the english language: in which the Words are deduced from their originals ... to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an english grammar ... Printed by W. Strahan, for W. Strahan [et al.]. 1773.


£6,000


folio. 2 vols. vol i rebacked preserving both original boards and with original labels to spine, vol i i rebound in full brown speckled calf preserving the original lower board with new labels to spine, blindstamped spines divided into seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco labels to second compartments, green morocco labels to fourth compartment, original boards with gilt edges; unpaginated; titles printed in red and black; new front endpapers in vol i, one or two marginal wormholes in each volume, otherwise fresh and very good.


fourth edition, the first revised edition in which Johnson added new words, corrected errors and included more illustrative quotations from biblical, technical and literary sources to create a substantially different and longer work.


“significant numbers of new illustrative texts were incorporated, while many others were dropped and replaced. [he] often flooded existing entries with new illustrations, sometimes accompanied by additional definitions or other material, thus altering the reading of the entry as a whole. many of the new sources from which he borrowed were theological writers, and the cumulative effect of the new quotations and their accompanying definitions or notes on usage is to draw attention to a broader theological sense of the word in question. ...Johnson revised no other work as extensively or after such a long period of time had elapsed - he was thirty-seven when he signed the original contract with the booksellers for the dictionary, almost sixty-three when he began the great revision; the scrutiny of his own work and accomplishments entailed in the effort, therefore, is unlike anything else to be found in Johnson’s canon” (Allen reddick, the making of Johnson’s dictionary 1746-1773, pp. 89-92).


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