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[OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.] A New English Dictionary on historical Principles. Edited by James A.H. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888-1928.

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[OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.] A New English Dictionary on historical Principles. Edited by James A.H. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888-1928.

20 volumes, 8o. Contemporary three-quarter blue morocco, spines gilt (evenly faded to a dark brown).

FIRST EDITION. "The greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship." PMM 371. (20)