Dictionary by Samuel Johnson, First Edition (54 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. edgewear and tear to rear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Edited by Jack Lynch. First edition thus. Fine in tan cloth with red lettering. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; 303 clean, unmarked pages/index; blue c w/gilt titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Modern Library Edition. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket shows some chipping at spine ends, minor soiling to DJ. Red "H" stamped on front free endpaper. DJ price clipped. States First Modern Library Edition, 1965. ; Toledano binding style '11', Kent Endpaper, Dust Jacket style 'k'. ; Modern Library; Vol. 355.1; 464 pages.

First UK edition (published 2 years after the US Levenger Press one). Hardcover. A tiny bit of foxing on the top edge, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket (sterling price intact). A fine selection from Johnson's two-volume opus, including an informative 20 page introduction by Lynch, and including Johnson's original preface of about the same length. Word list is presented elegantly and clearly. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine Hardcover Copy Of The Johnson's Dictionary Of The 18Th Century. Half Faux Leather With Cloth Boards. Extra Gilt On Spine. Very Solid, Heavy Copy There Is A Previous Owner's Name Neatly On Top Half Title Page. Century Binding With A Red Ribbon Page Marker Sewn In. 832 Pages. Abridged From The Rev, H. J. Todd's Corrected And Enlarged Quarto Edition, By Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.

Limited facsimile edition of 1,000 numbered copies, of which this example is lettered 'J' as part of 20 additional lettered copies 'not for sale'. Two large folio volumes, unpaginated, each comprising approximately 1,164 pages. Overall dimensions 410 × 260 mm (16 × 10 inches). Bound in brown half-leather with marbled boards, housed in the publisher's brown slipcase. The books are in near fine condition overall, with vol II being very good. There is some light marking to the slipcase. On volume II there are natural marks from sprinkling becoming smudged during printing. This does not affect the book in any way except for the apparent smudging. A facsimile of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, to which are prefixed A History of the English Language and An English Grammar. Includes John Mullan's companion work, Johnson's Dictionary: The Making of the Great Book of English, with selected extracts from the Dictionary. A very substantial and heavy set; significant additional shipping costs will apply for overseas destinations. More images available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two volumes. Folio Press, The Folio Society, 2006. First edition thus. Elephant folio (each volume measures 42 x 26cm. approx.). 1164; 1164pp. Titles printed in red & black. §A facsimile of the first edition of 1755 published by W. Strahan. Number 99 of an edition of one thousand hand-numbered copies printed on Favini toned paper. Uniformly bound in sprinkled half-calf, double contrasting labels, gilt lettering & decoration, raised bands, marbled boards and edges, double ribbon markers. Housed in partitioned buckram slip-case with printed paper label. A fine, bright set, apparently unused. Loosely inserted is a copy of Professor John Mullan's 12 page pamphlet 'Johnson's Dictionary: The Making of the Great Book of English, with extracts from the Dictionary', London: The Folio Society, 2006, in fine condition, together with the original Folio Society prospectus & envelope (latter a little creased), and printed paper slip with advice on storage conditions. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 14 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required for overseas orders: International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quotation).

84 [1] pp. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards. First edition; one of 500 copies. A few small and unobtrusive spots on the rear board and slightest of sunning at the top edge of the boards; otherwise, unworn, clean, tight and sound; contents fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume II only; L-Z. Unpaginated; 27 cm x 21.5 cm x 7.5 cm. No library stamps. Owner's name written at top of Title Page. Leather bound; ribbed spine; lacking front board, otherwise in good condition. Supple leaves; clean, tight and unmarked text block. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, from the Eleventh London Edition.

Eleventh Edition. First printing of this edition. One volume. Binding is clean and tight. Corners and edges worn. Minor foxing. Antique owners bookplate. Contains half title "Johnson's Dictionary. New Edition. 1799, Leather with original label on spine.

Leather. Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1805 Jacob Johnson & Co. Philadelphia. 1st American edition of Johnson's seminal dictionary, with the Preface to the Folio edition and Johnson's "Grammar" included. Xl; aprrox 900 pp. Full marbled calf with original green morocco label title lettered in gilt. Soundly bound and complete. Prior ownership of a James E Mifflens in manuscript to front flyleaf dated 1808. Leather rubbed with light abrasion at corner tips; small nick from leather at crown. Light creasing and crazing to leather at spine; text block slightly thickened at front edge with boards splaying a little. Occasional mild spotting to page stock but generally clean and bright. Entries in two columns are abstracted and abbreviated from the Folio edition. This Johnson printed Philadelphia edition is generally considered the best of the early American editions; its entries bear considerable similarity in their abridged state to the content of the original 4 volume 4to London edition. A well bound and complete copy in original binding. Thus, VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First American Edition. a dictionary of the english language: in which the words are deduced from their originals.abstracted from the folio edition by samuel johnson (1805) 1st American edition. Bound in full sheep leather with carmine morocco leather spine label. With the standard pronouncing dicitionary of John Walker. Leather crease down spine center.

Two vols, folio, pp.I: [1160], II: [1160]; titles printed in red and black; 12P signed '16P' as sometimes, 19D and 24O both in setting (a) (see below); browning to edges of titles, neat repairs to corners of vol.I title, light foxing to vol.II title, scattered foxing and browning elsewhere as often, a few minor smudges and stains, occasional closed marginal tears, a handful of tears with small loss to margins (none affecting text), small wormtracks to tail margins of first quires of both volumes, repaired at pB1 and p115A1; else a good copy in modern Cambridge-panelled calf, gilt citron morocco lettering-pieces; slightly rubbed and scuffed.First edition of 'the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography' (PMM), this copy preserving 19D and 24O both in the first state. The labour of nine years, Johnson's Dictionary contains over 40,000 words defined and 114,000 illustrative quotations. 'TheDictionaryleft an immense mark on its age. It soon became recognized as a work of classical standing, and in spite of some minor blemishes it has never lost its historical importance as the first great endeavour of its kind. Notable above all for definitions of pith and occasional wit, the dictionary was even more original in the way in which every word, asJohnsonput it, had its history. Each entry is organized under the headword to exemplify graduated senses of a term, a procedure which redirected the course of English lexicography. Further, the quotations used to exemplify the usage of a given word combined to form an anthology of moral sayings and helped to define the canon of literature' (ODNB). '[D]espite the progress made during the past two centuries in historical and comparative philology, Johnson's book may still be consulted for instruction as well as pleasure (PMM). The first edition has two sheets in variant settings 19D and 24O both preserved in their original state here, a combination highly uncommon according to Todd. The resetting of these sheets introduced some ninety variants, most of which depart from Johnson's copy-texts. ESTC T117231; Fleeman 55.4D/1a; Alston V, 177; Chapman & Hazen, pp.1378; Courtney & Nichol Smith, pp.545; Grolier Hundred 50; PMM 201; Rothschild 1237. See William B.Todd, 'Variants in Johnson's Dictionary, 1755', The Book Collector 14/2 (1965). Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An outstanding copy of the first edition of this enduring classic of English literature. This is Johnson s audacious attempt to tame his unruly native tongue combining huge erudition with a steely wit and remarkable clarity of thought (Hitchings). Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring, and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster s statement that Johnson s writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton s discoveries had in mathematics (PMM). To be sure, there had been dictionaries before his. The difference is that, while these were compiled, Johnson s was written. The glory of the book is that it is also a compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the masters, often Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson sought to intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology (Smithsonian Book of Books). Johnson illustrated the meanings of his 40,000 definitions with more than 100,000 quotations drawn from the time of Shakespeare down to Johnson s own time. He wrote in the preface, It is the fate of those that toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. This enormous book is generally found rebound, rebacked, or in dilapidated condition. This splendid copy in original condition is one of only a handful of unrestored copies to appear for public sale in recent decades. Printing and the Mind of Man 201. Rothschild 1237. Two volumes. Large folio. Contemporary mottled calf, with big, bold morocco labels stating English Dictionary and Johnson. Joints tender, some wear and browning. A very good copy in original condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Thus Limited Edition. AS NEW. A Very Handsome FOLIO sized Two Volume Set. Both Volumes bound in Half Dappled Calfskin with marbled paper covers. The covers and edges marbled by Ann Muir. Both Volumes are housed in a partitioned brown buckram slip-case with a printed paper label to the one side. Printed at St Edmundsbury Press on Favini Toned paper and bound by Smith Settle of Otley. First edition thus. Folio (each volume measures 42cm x 26cm. Approx.17" x 10.5"). 1164pp; 1164pp. Titles (and side label) printed in red & black. A Facsimile of the FIRST EDITION of 1755 published by W. Strahan. This copy is Number 131 of an edition of one thousand hand-numbered copies. A FINE, As New, Bright set, apparently unused. Loosely inserted is a letter to the former owner from the Folio Society apologising for the delay due to each set being hand-crafted, plus a slip on 'How to care for' the leather and the book. This is a Very Heavy/Overweight item weighing c.14 kg, therefore additional postage will be required for International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quotation if unsure of the costs. GIFT QUALITY. See Images. ; Thick Folio 16"- 17" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. 2 volume facsimile: half speckled calf with hand-marbled paper boards and edges by Ann Muir., Housed in the original buckram-bound box with scalloped edges and volume divider. A FINE & UNREAD SET. Please Note: This large and heavy set weighs Over 30 Lbs (15 Kgms), hence there will be some extra shipping cost. Size: Folio. LIMITED EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first complete US edition in two volumes. Original leather binding with 4 raised bands and red morocco labels is heavily worn. Boards are visible on the edges. Foxing throughout and previous owner inked his name on the first few pages but text appears to be otherwise unmarked. The front board of volume 1 is hanging on by a couple of stubborn threads. As much as I enjoy the utility of the internet I still find it quite pleasant to breezily flip through a dictionary from time to time. First American from the Eleventh London Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First octavo and first abridged edition, following the folio edition published the previous year. Complete in two volumes. Poor/Good-; both volumes rebound in reddish brown cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine lables; some staining and soiling to boards; browning and foxing to pages; wear and soiling from handling throught the text; volume two has clear tape repair to title page; small wormhole that runs from Labour to Sup.

Second edition of the first standard English-language Dictionary. Issued in parts beginning in the same year as the first edition. "Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 201). One of the many pleasures of having these volumes at hand is flipping through the pages reading various passages quoted from the works of Swift, Donne, Shakespeare, the Spectator [Addison & Steele], Locke, Bacon, Fairy Queen [Edmund Spenser], Dryden, et al, that Johnson employs to demonstrate word usage. Two folio volumes bound in full polished leather ornately bordered in gilt along outer edges and in blind along inner edges; gilt-stamped spines, each with 5 raised gilt-decorated double bands, 6 gilt-stamped compartments and a gilt-stamped red leather titling label; marbled endpapers; not paginated. The occasional minor stain, some sections slightly more age-darkened than others, tape repair to one leaf with marginal tear. Still, text quite bright and overall both volumes nearly fine.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A beautiful edition of Johnson's dictionary, a striking copy of the first edition complete in one volume. The first edition to be published in one volume, published by Harrison & Co. This immense work has previously always been published in two volumes.Very smartly rebound in a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, and a pretty gilt decoration to the spine. Bound by the Athene Bindery in 2002.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.Register runs as [1], a-d2, [A1], B2, C1, [14], C2, D-12O2.ESTC citation number T116651.Collated, complete.'A Dictionary of the English Language' is one of the most influential dictionaries in the historyof the English language, and was the pre-eminent English dictionary under the 'Oxford English Dictionary' was completed one-hundred and seventy-three years after Johnson's was published.Johnson took around seven years to complete this dictionary, and worked on it single-handedly.'A History of the Language' and 'An English Grammar' are prefixed.Samuel Johnson was a noted English author of the eighteenth century, well perceivedin his friend James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson', which is considered to be one of the most important biographies ever written. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the bounds, bound by the Athene Bindery. Externally, very smart. Only a couple of very light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age toned and clean with only a few occasional spots. Tide mark to the margin from the frontispiece to leaf 4C, a light tide mark which is heavier only to the first few pages. Frontispiece is a little edge worn with some repairs to the reverse. Very Good Indeed. book.

Full calf. Condition: Near fine. The eighth edition, corrected and revised, of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, as printed in 1799. (illustrator). Eighth Edition. Quarto, two volumes. Full diced brown calf, title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spines. Decorated with five raised bands and gilt-ruled compartments on spine, with gilt turn-ins and marbled edges. Both spines rebacked for added structure, original morocco labels laid down. Solid text blocks, bumped corners, internally clean with occasional foxing. Includes a frontispiece portrait of Johnson engraved from Sir Joshua Reynold's original painting. A near fine example of a landmark work in lexicography. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an influential English writer, lexicographer, and critic. Renowned for his masterful command of the English language, Johnson compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, originally published in 1755. This is the eighth edition of that dictionary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols. 17.25 x 10.5", early handsome rebinding in speckled calf with calf inserts on covers with gilt-lettered red and green spine labels, minor rubbing to covers, marginal toning to prelims, very light scattered foxing and finger soiling else a remarkably nicely preserved set. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (with Bacon quote under "Part" #7). Housed in custom leather backed cloth clamshell cases lined in green felt.

4 volumes, 8vo. First American edition from the Eleventh London edition. Original full leather with morocco spine labels. Volume I lacks front endpaper and has crude repairs to top and bottom of spine. Front hinge of volume 1 gone. Front board of volume 4 is detached. Otherwise, the volumes are scuffed and lightly worn but generally in very good condition. Volumes 1 & 2 are dated 1818; volumes 3 & 4 are dated 1819. Portrait of Johnson as frontispiece in volume 1. Hitchings (Defining the World), p. 244): "More enduringly significant than the European influence of the Dictionary was its influence across the Atlantic. The American adoption of the Dictionary was a momentous event not just in its history, but in the history of lexicography. For Americans in the second half of the eighteenth century, Johnson was the seminal authority on language, and the subsequent development of American lexicography was coloured by his fame." Fleeman 55.4D/21a; Shaw and Shoemaker 44473; Printing and the Mind of Man, 201 (first edition).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A striking and important edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language, the first complete edition to be printed in Ireland. The first edition thus, being the first quarto edition and first complete edition printed in Ireland. This printing is based on the fourth London folio edition of 1773, a conclusive edition which was the only one for which Johnson provided any additions or corrections.ESTC citation number T117233.Complete in two volumes.List of subscribers to the front of Volume I.Collated, complete.'A Dictionary of the English Language' is one of the most influential dictionaries in the historyof the English language, and was the pre-eminent English dictionary under the 'Oxford English Dictionary' was completed one-hundred and seventy-three years after Johnson's was published.Johnson took around seven years to complete this dictionary, and worked on it single-handedly.'A History of the Language' and 'An English Grammar' are prefixed.Volume I includes A-K, Volume II includes L-Z.Samuel Johnson was a noted English author of the eighteenth century, well perceivedin his friend James Boswell's 'The Life of Samuel Johnson', which is considered to be one of the most important biographies ever written. In a full calf binding, rebacked with the original boards restored. Externally, smart. Evidence of former loss to the joints prior to rebacking. Light bumping to the extremities. Some minor marks and a little rubbing to the boards. Gilt to the spines is rubbed. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional spot. Faint tide mark to the title page of Volume I, with a larger tide mark to the first few pages of Volume II. Very Good. book.

Condition: Very Good. The sixth edition. 2 volumes quarto (29 cm). Portrait, half title present in volume 1. Original calf boards, rebacked, corners rebuilt, end leaves renewed. Spines brightly gilt. A firm, bright, unblemished copy in restored binding. Courtney & Smith, p. 57. First quarto edition, and the first to include the frontispiece portrait.

4to. Occasional light spotting. Handsomely bound in recent half speckled tan calf, raised gilt bands, compartments in gilt, red & green morocco labels. Armorial bookplates, 'Terry', on leading pastedowns. Fleeman 55.4D/5a; Alston, V 184; ESTC T117233. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION and the first to be published in quarto. It includes a four page list of 290 subscribers. A second issue of this edition was published in 1777. Fleeman notes that 'the variety of signatures and the occasional presence of press-figures (relatively uncommon in Irish books), suggest that the work was produced simultaneously in parts by different printers'.

Folio. Titles in red & black; marginal paper repairs to titlepages & to a few additional leaves, most notably to final leaf of vol. I but not affecting text, some sl. foxing, heavier in places. Handsomely rebound in half speckled calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, red & green morocco labels. Occasional stamp of Bournemouth Public Libraries at top right corner. Fleeman 55.4D/1a; Alston V 177; ESTC T117231. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 vols in 1. unnumbered. Full brown leather with title label on spine. 20.2x13.3cm. Front & rear cover sl.stained & scuffing. Its spine sunned. All edges partly sunned & stained. Sl.water stained on fore edge. Partly spotted on title page in each vol. Sl.spotted on several pages. [Vol.II]: Side of last pages splited & sl.chipped. [d00489-300735].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Published by Moses Thomas.Sold, in Maryland, by N. G. Maxwell, Baltimore. J. Maxwell, printer, 1818. "First American, from the Eleventh London Edition, 4to (11 1/2" x 9 1/4"), unpaginated in triple columns, 304 leaves [608 pp.], half title stating "Vol. 1 A-K", copperplate engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson inserted, 2 printer's blanks, 2 printer's free endpapers. Incomplete volume one only ending at the entry for "dash". Collation: 1*-*2, b1-c4, D1-2, E1-I4, K1-Q4, R1-2, A1-I4, K1-U4, X1-Z4, Aa1-I4, Kk1-Uu4, Xx1-Zz4, 3A1-3H4, 3I1-3O4. Original drab boards. Partial volume one comprising the first 304 leaves & thus far complete with the blanks, half title, title, & engraved frontispiece portrait. Uncut sheets clean & unmarked in original boards now detached, edge worn & stained. Interesting for its original boards uncut state and for the half-title stating volume 1 is "A-K" not "A-N" as indicated in two volume quarto Thomas editions also dated 1818. This title also includes "Sold, in Maryland, by N. G. Maxwell, Baltimore." in the imprint. H9143.