An edition of Defining the world (2005)

Defining the world

the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

1st American ed.

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Cover of: Defining the world by Henry Hitchings, Henry Hitchings
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An edition of Defining the world (2005)

Defining the world

the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

1st American ed.

by

Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
292

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Subjects

Encyclopédies et dictionnaires, Lexikographie, History and criticism, Anglais (Langue), Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais, Lexicographie, Histoire, English language, Wörterbuch, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Histoire et critique, Lexicography, History, Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, English language, dictionaries, English language, lexicography, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism

People

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Samuel, 1709-1784 Johnson, Samuel Johnson

Places

Englisch

Times

18e siècle, 18th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: Defining the world
Defining the world: the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Table of Contents

Adventurous
Amulet
Apple
Bookworm
Commoner - Darkling
To decamp
To dissipate
English
Entrance
Factotum
To gather
Higgledy-piggledy
Lexicographer
Library
Melancholy
Microscope
Network
Nicety
To note
Opinionist
Opulence
Pastern
Patron
Philology
Pleasureful
To preface
Publication
Reception
Triumphant
Ubiquity
Variety
Weightiness
X
Zootomy.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in 2005 by John Murray (Publishers) ... as Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: the extraordinary story of the book that defined the world"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
423
Library of Congress
PE1617.J7 H58 2005, PE1617.J7H58 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 292 p. :
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24740618M
Internet Archive
definingworldext00hitc
ISBN 10
0374113025
ISBN 13
9780374113025
LCCN
2005042661
OCLC/WorldCat
59401223

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