Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Date
1755
Lexicographer
Book title
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 Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, A History of the Language, And An English Grammar.
Publication place
London
Printer
W. Strahan
Publisher
J. and P. Knaptor, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, and R. and J. Dodsley
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
2 vols.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: HOU'RPLATE. n. s. [hour and plate.] The dial; the plate on which the hours pointed by the hand, and the characters of the hourplate, and thereby at a distance see what o'clock it was, their owner could not be much benefited by that acuteness. Locke.
sample: HOU'RPLATE. n. s. [hour and plate.] The dial; the plate on which the hours pointed by the hand, and the characters of the hourplate, and thereby at a distance see what o'clock it was, their owner could not be much benefited by that acuteness. Locke.
STC
T117231
Catalog
Tonelli, Giorgio, Eugenio Canone, and Margherita Margherita . A Short-title List of Subject Dictionaries of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2006.
no. 96
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Other editions
1755-56 (ESTC T014931; 2nd edn.)
1760 (ESTC T083959; 2nd edn. corrected)
1765 (ESTC T118173; 3rd edn.)
1770 (ESTC T072103; 4th edn. corrected)
1773 (ESTC T083962; 5th edn., corrected)
1775 (ESTC T117233; 4th edn., revised by the author)
1777 (ESTC T182767; 4th edn., revised by the author)
1778 (ESTC T083960; 6th edn., corrected by the author)
1783 (ESTC N028411; 7th edn., corrected by the author)
1785 (ESTC N000018; 6th edn.)
1760 (ESTC T083959; 2nd edn. corrected)
1765 (ESTC T118173; 3rd edn.)
1770 (ESTC T072103; 4th edn. corrected)
1773 (ESTC T083962; 5th edn., corrected)
1775 (ESTC T117233; 4th edn., revised by the author)
1777 (ESTC T182767; 4th edn., revised by the author)
1778 (ESTC T083960; 6th edn., corrected by the author)
1783 (ESTC N028411; 7th edn., corrected by the author)
1785 (ESTC N000018; 6th edn.)
Sources
- Sayers, William. "A Source for Dr. Johnson's Self-Referential Entry "Lexicographer"." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 26.1 (2013): 17-19. view record
