1822 · Philadelphia
by Walker, John
Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner & William Bradford, 1822. Sq. 12mo, pp. xxix, [1], 413, [1]; contemporary full calf, gilt-ruled spine, black morocco label; joints starting, some foxing, good. Sheridan, Perry and Entick were the only English lexicographers to precede Walker in the American market. Unlike these dictionaries, though, Walker's took hold on American soil, and editions of him proliferated here through the first half of the 19th century. Much of Walker's theory of pronunciation was later adopted by Joseph Worcester, who introduced in his own dictionaries Walker's "correct" or "King's English" pronunciation to Americans, thereby exerting Walker's (truncated)