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WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: SECOND EDITION UNABRIDGED LEATHERBOUND WITH REPAIRED ORIGINAL BOX; India-Paper Style

1949réf. 88537NEW YORK: Merriam-Webster 1949. Second Edition. Leather-bound. VERY GOOD PLUS. Size 12 3/8 9 3/4 x 3 inches. Weight 9 1/2 lbs. Brown pebbled cowhide sprinkled edges tab indexed of bright gilt on black. The India-Paper Style very thinccx reduced the thickness and weight of the Regular Style dictionary which weighed 16 1/2 lbs. by almost one-half. Contains 600000 Entries; 12000 Terms Illustrated; 13000 Geographical Entries. The Box is a heavily restored rather crudely we sadly admit measuring 12 1/2 in. x 10 in. x 3 in. with original top label centered upon a built-up top surface remnants of the original lid ends also mounted onto build-up or replacement and the two long ends of the lid completely replaced. The bottom portion of the box while built up along seams is entirely original. In more than thirty years of being in business and handling several dozen copies of "The Magnificent Second" we have never seen an original box. NOTE: This particular dictionary was MARRIED to this box; it did not originally come with this box Book begins with full-color tissue-guarded charts of the U.S. Flags Great Seals of the United States and Territories State Flags of the United States Arms of Various Nations Arms and Flags of The British Empire Flags of Various Nations including the Nazi Flag; and House Flags of Steamship Lines. Thenan introduction and actual photographs of every single special editor or editorial staff member who contributed to this massive and gorgeous pinnacle of scholarship; a nearly-sixty-page guide to pronounciation; a section on Orthography; and a Brief History of The English Language. Dictionary itself runs from Page 1 through Page 2987 this page has a 2 inch closed tear and includes numerous pages of photographs full-color plates Representative Orchids Gems Poisonous Plants State Flowers to name most. Following the conclusion of the last entry Zyzzogeton there follows: Charts of Abbreviations; Arbitrary Signs and Symbols; Pronouncing Gazeteer and Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary "containing more than 13500 names of noteworthy persons their nationality their station their profession or occupation and the dates of their birth and death". This is the 1949 printing of Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition First issued in 1934 and last printed in 1960 before giving way in 1961 to the Third Edition. India Paper edition Leatherbound. Magnificent in its precise balance between utility and elegance. With not a drop of hyperbole one of the most important books containing enough knowledge for survivors to begin the world anew should they be given the chance. A tool in the broadest and deepest sense. If this magnificient inconceivably beautiful tool is for you or for s/he to whom you wish to give it as a gift they'll KNOW and they'll LET you know! India Paper Edition. This 1949 printing of Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition last printed in 1960 before giving way to the Third Edition. Its makers write: "Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition is the culmination of a century's experience in dictionary making. For more than 100 years the work of the editorial staff has been continuous. 207 special editors labored ten years to make this a comprehensive authoritative and up-to-date reference work to serve today's needs" In it "the consultant will find answers to all questions not only about meanings but also about spelling hyphenation preferred forms the part of speech to which a word belongs pronunciation etymology synonyms and multitudes of other problems." "A Work of Which America Should Be Proud'' says William Lyon Phelps Why this Second Edition is considered FAR preferable to the newer Third Edition The Second Edition which is THIS book we've been told is widely preferred by scholars over the Third Edition due to its strict adherence to correct English its purportedly greater etymological/philological detail reflecting deeper entry-by-entry scholarshipits superior aesthetic and design sense "Garry Wills in the National Review opined that the new i.e. the THIRD EDITION dictionary 'has all the modern virtues. It is big expensive and ugly. It should be a great success'" Edited by Philip Babcock Gove the Third encompassed radical changes which some found unacceptable: ".To make room for 100000 new words Gove now made sweeping deletions dropping 250000 entries. He eliminated the 'nonlexical matter' that more properly belongs to an encyclopaedia including all names of people and places which had filled two appendices. There were no more mythological biblical and fictional names nor the names of buildings historical events or art works. Thirty picture plates were dropped. The rationale was that while useful these are not strictly about language. Also removed were words which had been virtually out of use for over two hundred years except those found in major literature such as Shakespeare rare variants reformed spellings self-explanatory combination words and other items considered of little value to the general reader. The number of small text illustrations was reduced page size increased and print size reduced by one-twelfth from six point to agate 5.5 point type. All this was considered necessary because of the large amount of new material." "In the early 1960s Webster's Third came under attack for its "permissiveness" and its failure to tell people what proper English was. .as conservatives detected yet another symbol of the permissiveness of society as a whole and the decline of authority as represented by the Second Edition.19 As historian Herbert Morton explained "Webster's Second was more than respected. It was accepted as the ultimate authority on meaning and usage and its preeminence was virtually unchallenged in the United States. It did not provoke controversies it settled them." Critics charged that the dictionary was reluctant to defend standard English for example entirely eliminating the labels "colloquial" "correct" "incorrect" "proper" "improper" "erroneous" "humorous" "jocular" "poetic" and "contemptuous" among others." Further ".The consensus held that the Third was a "marvelous achievement a monument of scholarship and accuracy". They did come up with some specific criticisms including typographic unattractiveness the type is too small and hard to read; non-use of capital letters only "God" was capitalized; the goal was to save space; excessive use of citations giving misspellings as legitimate variants dropping too many obsolete words the lack of usage labels and deliberate omission of biographical and geographical entries. Merriam-Webster unknown

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