Dictionary Johnson

"Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."

A Dictionary of the English Language

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. A Short Scheme for Compiling a New Dictionary of the English Language. 1746. Manuscript.

 Samuel Johnson. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. Transcript in a scribal hand, with authorial corrections, 1746 or 1747. Manuscript. Photograph
       
Photograph Samuel Johnson. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. and P. Knapton...[et al.], 1747. Virgil. The Æneid … Translated by Mr. Pitt. London: R. Dodsley, 1740.

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Photograph Alexander Macbean. Quotations from Shakespeare transcribed for the Dictionary.
[ca. 1755]. Manuscript.		 Samuel Johnson. Fragment of “The Grammar of the English Language”. [ca. 1755]. Manuscript.

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary of the English Language. London: W. Strahan … [et al.], 1755. The Earl of Chesterfield’s copy. Samuel Johnson. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. February 7, 1755. Transcript in another hand.

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Photograph Samuel Johnson. The Celebrated Letter from Samuel Johnson, LL.D. to Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. London: C. Dilly, 1790. Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary of the English Language. London: Millar, 1765. Fragment with manuscript annotations.

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