first edition
1913 · New York
by [Webster, Noah]
New York: privately printed, 1912, 1913. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes; presentation copy "from the daughter of Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford [i.e. the editor, Emily E.F. Skeel], Xmas 1913" to [name erased]. A note on the verso of each title reads "Printed by Kathleen Gordon Ford Turle, Rosalie Greenleaf Ford Barr, Grace Kidder Ford Williams, Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Roswell Skeel, Jr." A printer's imprint at the end of each volume shows that the book was printed in Glasgow by Robert Maclehose & Co. The work contains seven first printings of certain Webster materials (mostly extracts, letters and memoranda -- see Skeel (truncated)