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An American Dictionary of the English Language. First Edition in Octavo Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the Quarto with Corrections Improvements and Several Thousand Additional Words; To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin History and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and Europe with an Explanation of the Principles on which Languages are Formed

1842ref. 309481New Haven: Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster Boston etc. . Printed by B.L. Hamlen 1842. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. Contemporary speckled sheep contrasting morocco spine labels marbled endpapers marbled edges. Covers scuffed joints worn some light spotting to text some worming to vol. I not affecting text. Morse Samuel French B. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. A fine copy of the rare octavo edition of Webster's unabridged dictionary the last that Webster published before his death in 1843. This is the textually best edition published in Webster's lifetime incorporating his final revisions some 5000 new definitions and a preface and introduction "on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and Europe with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed." Skeel notes that 3000 copies of this edition were printed fewer than the 5 or 6 thousand that Webster wanted but more than the 2500 of the 1828 first edition. A prospectus Skeel 585 advertised the edition at $13 sheep and $14 calf gilt. The work was in the press for over a year; a note in Webster's hand on a copy in the Connecticut State Library states "First signature of this edition impressed Oct. 22 1839. Last sheet impressed January 30 1841 15 months & days." The edition sold slowly with nearly half of the run still in sheets at the time of Webster's death. An attractive copy bearing the ownership signatures of George W. Turner dated the year he bought the mansion and farm of Elmscourt now Elms Court in Natchez Mississippi. Skeel 586; cf. Grolier American 36; cf. PMM 291; cf. Sabin 102335. Provenance: George W. Turner of Elmscourt or Elms Court Natchez Mississippi inscription in both volumes dated 1842 Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster, Boston, [etc.] ... Printed by B.L. Hamlen unknown books

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Webster, Noah; Worcester, JE [Joseph Emerson]; Walker, John J EABAA

An American Dictionary of the English Language; Exhibiting the Origin Orthography Pronunciation and Definitions of Words. Abridged from the Quarto Edition of the Author to which are added a Synopsis of Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoepists and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek Latin and Scripture Proper Names. Revised Edition; with an Appendix Containing All the Additional Words in the Last Edition of the Larger Work

1845ref. 2346357New York: Harper & Brothers 1845. Abridged. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and drying with 2 inch surface chip from rear corner splits beginning along front and rear joints endpapers and a few other pages foxed ink initials on fore edge. 1845 Full-Leather. xxiii 1 1079 1 pp. 8vo. Full leather gilt rules marbled edges illustrations throughout text. A revision of Webster's monumental achievement of lexicography abridged by J.E. Worcester. A contemporary of Noah Webster Joseph Emerson Worcester was a lexicographer who also worked on Webster's Dictionary but published several dictionaries and other reference works as well. He and Webster engaged in what are now known as The Dictionary Wars in which Webster slung accusations of plagiarism while Worcester maintained that his work was his own. Includes prefaces to the 1829 and 1841 editions; guides to pronunciation; an appendix with words added since the publication of the larger work; John Walker's A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek Latin and Scripture Proper Names; in which the words are accented and divided into syllables exactly as they ought to be pronounced according to the rules drawn from analogy and the best usage. to which are added Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew Greek and Latin Proper Names. in which the words are arranged according to their final syllables and classed according to their accents by which the general analogy of pronunciation may be seen at one view and the accentuation of each word more easily remembered.; Rules for the Pronunciation of Scripture Proper Names.; Plan of the Octavo Dictionary with Recommendations of This and the Original Work. Harper & Brothers hardcover books

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