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Johnson's Dictionary, sixth folio edition, 1785 : Volume 1 and Volume 2 at the Internet Archive. Plan and Preface of A Dictionary of the English Language public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Web site : Samuel Johnson Dictionary Sources, an extensive examination of the sources of quotations in Johnson's Dictionary.
The coincidence of names leads many people to believe that this last one was the author of the dictionary. Rather, Johnson Jr. was from an old Guilford family; his father was a clothier, [3] and his great uncle was the Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1696–1772), noted theologian, and first President of King's College (now Columbia University). [3]
Before Samuel Johnson's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.
Johnson's thoughts on biography and on poetry found their union in his understanding of what would make a good critic. His works were dominated with his intent to use them for literary criticism, including his Dictionary to which he wrote: "I lately published a Dictionary like those compiled by the academies of Italy and France, for the use of such as aspire to exactness of criticism, or ...
Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876–1878), 4 volumes; editors Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard and Arnold Henry Guyot. Johnson's (revised) universal cyclopaedia (1886) Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1893–1897) Universal Cyclopaedia (1900) Encyclopedic Dictionary (1879) Lloyd's encyclopaedic dictionary (1895) (link only contains ...
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746–1773. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Snyder, K.A. 1990. Defining Webster: Mind and Morals in the Early Republic ...
In 2005, Hitchings published Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, [4] a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal A Dictionary of the English Language (1755). The first popular account of Dr Johnson's magnum opus, it "charts the struggle and ultimate triumph of one of the first attempts to 'fix' the ...
A supplementary volume of his dictionary appeared in 1727, and in 1730 a folio edition, the Dictionarium Britannicum [9] containing many technical terms. [8] Bailey had collaborators, for example John Martyn who worked on botanical terms in 1725. [10] Samuel Johnson made an interleaved copy the foundation of his own Johnson's Dictionary. [8]