One Of The Monumental Works Of The English Language; A First Edition Of Samuel Johnsons Two Volume A Dictionary Of The English Language

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784). Johnson was a prominent English author and lexicographer best remembered for his A Dictionary of the English Language that has been acclaimed as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.Two volumes. 1755. London. An oversized, two volume first edition of Johnsons A dictionary of the English language. In which the words are deduced from their 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. It was printed in London in 1755 by by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley. It is still in the original boards although the front cover of the first volume is cleanly detached. The bookplate of Sir John Bridger is affixed. There is some wear and cracking to the spines and a few of the interior pages have chipping to the margins and other faults. A generally fine copy of this seminal linguistic work.