London: printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, for W. J. and J. Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1803. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 139, [1] errata; without the 6 folding lithograph plates; later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; the missing plates aside, a very good, sound copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of..... More
New York: Grand Union Tea Co., 1889. 12mo, pp. 407,192, [4]; 5 pp. of engraved illustrations between the first and second sections; publisher's purple pictorial cloth (a bit soiled on back board), decorative endpapers; spine toned, front free endpaper and title page detached, pages brittle and uniformly toned. Publisher's advertisements..... More
London: printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street in the Strand, 1743. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [6] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; [2], unpaginated lexicon; contemporary full speckled calf, adorned with double gilt rules on covers, gilt fillets and volume designation numbers on spine; fine set. Early..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., [1983]. Third edition, 8vo, pp. xiii-[xvi], 632; charts and diagrams throughout text; fine in jacket. Entries include, besides definitions, opposing or critical viewpoints and a listing of bibliographical references. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 697; tables and charts throughout; publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jacket, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges, small loss at bottom edge of back jacket cover not affecting text, 1 1/2-inch tear to same edge affecting one letter;..... More
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1992. Tall 4to, pp. 43, [1]; color photographic illustrations throughout; pictorial staplebound self wrappers, light wear, else very good. At head of cover title: "Tradition & Innovation" More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1943. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 804; lexicon proper in double column; very good, sound copy in orig. tan printed wrappers. More
New York: A.L. Burt, 1885. First edition, 8vo, pp. 698, [2] ads; text in double column, over 1000 illus. in text; some wear at the extremities, else a good, sound copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Vancil, p. 172 citing the 1888 edition only. More
London: printed; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725. First edition of the second separately-printed dictionary of slang, 12mo, pp. [156]; later full speckled brown calf, a.e.g.; joints rubbed and tender. Largely based on the earlier A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1951. 8vo, pp. xvi, 943; text illustrations throughout; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over green marble boards, gilt spine, t.e.g., marble endpapers; binding partly detached from text block, shelf wear, most notably along hinges; in all a very attractive copy. All emphasized syllables underlined in..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Company, 1975. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. [8], 1688, [1]; the dictionary proper printed in double column; some light soiling else fine in like dust jacket. "The first medium-sized, comprehensive English-Chinese dictionary to have been compiled in China since the Great Proletarian Revolution" (jacket blurb). More..... More
Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam, 1946. 16mo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. 53, [3]; ornamented title-page printed in red and black, first page of text rubricated and ornamented; generally a fine copy in orig. dec. yellow paper-covered boards. More
Leipzig: Otto Holtzes Nachfolger, 1900. New stereotype-edition, "revised and improved," third impression, 16mo, 2 volumes in one, pp. [10], 433, [1], [2], 325, [3] (ads); text in double column; original black morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in 4 compartments; edges scuffed, light spotting to preliminaries, else very good and..... More
Cleveland: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935. 12mo, pp. 380; publisher's black cloth, gilt-stamped spine, black endpapers, all edges red; shelf wear, most of the spine gilt rubbed away; lacking front free endpaper, small tear to front flyleaf, 1-inch shallow tear along title page edge not affecting text, interior mostly..... More
Baltimore: Ottenheimer, [1956]. 16mo, pp. 239, [1]; original green gilt-lettered leatherette, unadorned spine; very good. At head of title: "This dictionary is not published by the original publishers of Webster's Dictionary or by their Successors." More
London: printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1759. Only edition, 16mo, pp. [2], vi, 216; folding frontispiece; contemporary green roan-backed marbled boards, label wanting, half-title loose, but present and with a tear in the top margin which enters the top of the frontispiece..... More
Frankfurt: Renard Eustache Moeller, 1744. Very thick 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. [8], 1062; 496; engraved frontispiece, printer's device on title page; contemporary full calf, rubbed and worn, leather on spine largely perished and revealing binding structure; joints cracked, but the binding remains reasonably sound and the text relatively..... More
Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 6, [vii]-viii, [13]-160; full original sheep, red morocco label on spine; slight cracking of joints, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, but generally a good, sound copy. Topically arranged in 28 subjects, including the solar..... More
London: printed for J. Newberry, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1758. 8vo, pp. xvi, [432], with a leaf of ads at the back with tears and holes repaired; lexicon in double column; full contemporary sheep, boards rubbed and peeling, but the whole has been neatly recased..... More
[New York: Random House, 1993]. First printing of the second edition, revised, large, thick 4to, pp. xlii, 2478; 16 plates of color maps printed on rectos and versos in rear, plain text illustrations throughout, text in triple columns; illustrated endpapers; original cloth in silver dust jacket, thumb fore-edge index; with..... More
New York: Sidney Gernsback, [c. 1927]. 4to, pp. 168; text in three columns; illustrated throughout; full black publisher's cloth gilt; edges and corners rubbed, text clean and sound, very good. Biographies, tools, circuit diagrams, etc. More
London: for J. Brownnell, 1754. First (and only) edition. 8vo, pp. 32; 19th century half red morocco, gilt-lettered spine, new blue cloth folding box with leather label. The Huth - Slater - Brett-Smith copy, with the Huth bookplate. Despite the romantic framing story provided on the title-page, the text is..... More
London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. 12mo, pp. xxi, 305, 5, 24; frontispiece, title page vignette; publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth, grey endpapers; spine lacking, boards scuffed and nearly detached; edges show some shelf wear. 29 pp. of publisher's advertisements bound in back. More
London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit..... More
Dublin: printer [sic] by Peter Hoey, 1780. First Dublin edition, 8vo in 4s, pp. v, [1], plus unpaginated lexicon and 3 pp. of publisher's advertisements in rear; one folding table; full contemporary calf recently rebacked, new maroon gilt morocco spine label; about fine. An anonymous compilation providing "full and particular..... More
