1880 · Springfield, Mass
by Goodrich, Chauncey A., & Noah Porter, eds
Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam, 1880. Second printing of this edition (first issued in 1879), with the supplement of new words and a revised biographical dictionary by Loomis M. Campbell; 3 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece of Webster after Samuel F. B. Morse, engraved vignette title page in volume II, 4 color plates of flags and badges, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; lexicon in triple column; publisher's original brown cloth, elabortately printed advertisements and testamonials on endpapers in volumes I and II, gilt-lettered spines; spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, else good and sound. The book was also issued in a doorstop edition of a single volume. Kennedy 6539; Vancil, p. 268.
(Inventory #: 44329)