Johnson (Samuel): A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols., first edition, folio, by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1755 [Courtney and Walsh p. 54; Lowndes 1217] (occasional light soiling and spotting), contemporary calf (scuffed, neatly rebacked). (2)

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Johnson (Samuel): A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols., first edition, folio, by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1755 [Courtney and Walsh p. 54; Lowndes 1217] (occasional light soiling and spotting), contemporary calf (scuffed, neatly rebacked). (2)

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Lowndes: 'The later editions we may be certain have accumulated errors of the press; and the booksellers, whose chief object is profit have rendered them much less valuable than this early one, by abridgement or suppression, in order to bring the work into a smaller compass.'

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