(DICTIONARY) Webster Noah An American Dictionary of the Engl

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(DICTIONARY.) Webster, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. Portrait frontispiece. 2 volumes. 4to, early 1/2 diced calf, worn at corners, covers detached, some abrading to the backstrips; interior quite clean. With the Additions leaf at the end of volume two. New York: S. Converse, 1828

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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 . . . 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.