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Samuel Johnson, 1747
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The Plan of a Dictionary
Samuel Johnson, 1747
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, 1747.
The first edition of Johnson’s 1747 plan for the dictionary. A handsome and finely bound copy. Johnson drafted "A Short Scheme for compiling a new Dictionary of the English Language" in April 1746 and sent it to a reader who was probably his close friend Dr. John Taylor. The "Scheme" was enlarged into the "Plan" at some point during the winter of 1746-47, and Johnson then had a copy made and sent to at least five readers, including Taylor and Lord Chesterfield. More revisions followed at proof stage before the work was published in early August 1747. The present copy is the second state, without Chesterfield’s name on A1 and without the extra “the” preceding “mazes” on E1v. Courtney & Smith 20, Fleeman 47.8PD/1b.
Quarto (230 x 167mm). (Stab holes to left margin, title page lightly toned at outer edge.) Mottled calf by Riviere, red morocco label, all edges gilt. Provenance: G.D. L. Horsburgh (bookplate; Sotheby & Co., 29 October 1970, lot 90).
Samuel Johnson, 1747
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, 1747.
The first edition of Johnson’s 1747 plan for the dictionary. A handsome and finely bound copy. Johnson drafted "A Short Scheme for compiling a new Dictionary of the English Language" in April 1746 and sent it to a reader who was probably his close friend Dr. John Taylor. The "Scheme" was enlarged into the "Plan" at some point during the winter of 1746-47, and Johnson then had a copy made and sent to at least five readers, including Taylor and Lord Chesterfield. More revisions followed at proof stage before the work was published in early August 1747. The present copy is the second state, without Chesterfield’s name on A1 and without the extra “the” preceding “mazes” on E1v. Courtney & Smith 20, Fleeman 47.8PD/1b.
Quarto (230 x 167mm). (Stab holes to left margin, title page lightly toned at outer edge.) Mottled calf by Riviere, red morocco label, all edges gilt. Provenance: G.D. L. Horsburgh (bookplate; Sotheby & Co., 29 October 1970, lot 90).
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