first edition
1863 · London
by Coleridge, Herbert
London: John Camden Hotten, 1863. First edition under this title; slim 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 102, [2]; original green morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine, t.e.g.; extremities rubbed and worn, boards faded, spine ends chipped; a good copy. The text was first published in 1859 as A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century. Herbert Coleridge (1830-1861) was elected to the Philological Society in 1857, when the society "was engaged on a proposal for remedying the acknowledged deficiencies of the two standard dictionaries of Johnson and Richardson ... which soon developed into a scheme for a complete (truncated)