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(DICTIONARY.) Webster, Noah. Webster's American Dictionary. Portrait frontispiece. 2 volumes. 4to, publisher's calf, covers a bit worn; foxing to
(DICTIONARY.) Webster, Noah. Webster's American Dictionary. Portrait frontispiece. 2 volumes. 4to, publisher's calf, covers a bit worn; foxing to the portrait and endpapers, otherwise quite clean. With the Additions leaf at the end of volume 2. New York, 1828
- Notes: first edition. "The most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil... Webster set a new standard for etymological investigation and for accuracy of definition... and included 70,000 words, as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary. There were 2,500 copies printed, in boards uncut or full calf [i.e. like the present copy], at $20 for the two volumes... One of the great contributions toward mass education, this Dictionary placed correct spelling and usage within the reach of Everyman"--Grolier, American 36; Sabin 102335; Printing and the Mind of Man 291.
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