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Lot 200
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
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Live / Chicago
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JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Dictionary of the English Language. London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton and others, 1755-1756.
2 volumes, folio (390 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black, text printed in double column. (Creasing to titles and a few leaves, title to vol. I repaired, .) Contemporary calf covers laid over modern calf (some light wear, particularly to joints).
Second edition of Johnson's greatest literary achievement, "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (PMM201). [With:] Facsimile of 33pp. of the first edition of Johnson's Dictionary. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, for Christmas 1941.
Property from the Estate of Richardson and Janice Spofford, Chicago, Illinois
Property from the Estate of Richardson and Janice Spofford, Chicago, Illinois