A Dictionary of the English Language: to Which the Words are Deduced from the Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar.

London: Longman, [1990]. Leather. Fine. 16.5" by 10.5". None. A beautifully presented facsimile of the 1755 first edition of Samuel Johnson's English dictionary, bound in full leather and in the original slipcase. The facsimile of the 1755 first edition of Samuel Johnson's 'Dictionary of the English Language'. Two volumes. In the publisher's original Cabra red bonded leather and green calf labels, gilt-panelled spines and sprinkled edges. Complete with its original slipcase with title labels to the boards. Lacking the two additional booklets. A stunning uniform facsimile edition of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, to this day remaining one of the most famous dictionaries in the history of the English language for its attention to detail and its massive scholarly achievement, being a more extensive and complex dictionary than any predecessors, listing forty-thousand words. The dictionary took only over eight years to compile, and required the contributions of six helpers and forty scholars.Undated, dated by copies held by the British Library. In the publisher's original full Cabra red bonded leather and with the original cloth slipcase. Lacking two additional booklets. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. The slipcase is excellent with fraying to the extremities. Fine