The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-1773 (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History)

Allen Reddick

ISBN 10: 0521361605 / ISBN 13: 9780521361606

Published by Cambridge University Press October 1990, 1990

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First Edition. A square, tight and unmarked copy. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar. Seller Inventory # 80598

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Title: The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press October 1990

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First.

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Review:

'... a major contribution to Johnsonian studies sure to endure the test of time ... a methodological model that will doubtless influence future scholarship well beyond eighteenth-century or lexicographical studies ... surely a landmark study.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

'After Reddick, there can be no return to any unexamined sense of the Dictionary's wholeness. At the same time, he makes Johnson's achievement appear, if anything, greater, a more deeply human monument built out of shreds and patches.' The Times Literary Supplement

'... a fascinating and wonderful piece of scholarly detective work ... The chapter that Reddick bases solely on his new discoveries ... is as good a single chapter as anyone has written in any book on Johnson of the last thirty years.' The Age of Johnson

'An important, exact, and fascinating book.' Bibliographical Society of America

'... a landmark study.' Eighteenth-Century Studies '... a fascinating and wonderful piece of scholarly detective work.' The Age of Johnson