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First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [4], 1183, [1]; [4], 1185-2222, [1]; recent red cloth, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" (see DNB). Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography, this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. Seller Inventory # 28120
Bibliographic Details
Title: A new dictionary of the English language
Publisher: William Pickering, London
Publication Date: 1836
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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