DR. JOHNSON AND NOAH WEBSTER: Two Men and Their Dictionaries. Illustrated with a matched pair of original leaves from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755) and An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1828)
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 84, [2] pp., original leaves tipped in at rear; quarto, dark blue leather spine with gilt .russet morocco lettering piece, pale bue boards. Original leaves are from the letter "B" section of each dictionary. Moderate foxing to leaves. Edition of..... More