A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
por JOHNSON, Samuel:
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Veja a descrição
- Livreiro
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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(Fleeman 55.4D/8; Alston V 186; ESTC T116655).
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Sinopse
Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic lexicon ever written and was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This anthology includes 4,000 of the most representative, entertaining, and historically fascinating entries, covering subjects from fashion to food, science to sex, and given in full with original spelling and examples of usage from Shakespeare to Milton.
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- Livreiro
- Sky Duthie Rare Books (GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 1282
- Título
- A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
- Autor
- JOHNSON, Samuel:
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington [et al.].
- Data de publicação
- 1785.
- Palavras-chave
- Literature|Bindings
- Observação
- Pode ser um conjunto de vários volumes e exigir postagem adicional.
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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