Samuel Johnson English Dictionary约翰逊大辞典
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出版时间2006
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Johnson, Dr Samuel - Johnson's Dictionary Limited Edition
Published Place London
Publisher Folio Society
Published Year 2006
Edition First Thus
Inventory number 120811
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Weight 20000 g
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2 Fine Hardbacks. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine slipcase. Large 4to. Limited edition of 1000 copies and a few lettered copies of which this is number 492. Two volumes. 1,164 pages each. 16¼" x 10¼". Exact facsimile reproduced from the first edition, title page printed in two colours on Favini cream paper. Two ribbon markers per volume. Three-quarter bound in calf leather with hand-marbled paper sides. Presented in a robust buckram-bound box with scalloped edges and volume divider. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals, AND ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS, BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITER. To Which are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar: IN TWO VOLUMES. This, the full title of the work now known as Johnson's Dictionary, exemplifies what is special about the book: no mere collection of word definitions, but a larger work, bold in aims, broad in purpose. Johnson had an appreciation for the beauties of fine language and a knowledge of literature surpassed by none. Even today, the quotations he chose read like a succinct overview of the canon of great English literature. Yet Johnson's Dictionary was also a living work; a picture of his age as well as a work of great intellectual rigour, a milestone in the development of the English language. Alongside literary language were slang terms, sudden interjections of the rough and tumble of the city amongst the measured classical lines of poetry. If language is forever changing, then a dictionary can never be finished. Nearly thirty years after its first publication, Johnson was still making revisions at the time of his death. Proof, if any were needed, of how close the Dictionary was to his heart. 'The work of a single person and composed in a period.有一册封面被圆珠笔划了一道，见图。
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