A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the hi
Samuel Johnson's Folio (1755) and Abridged (1756) Dictionaries together
Close up of pages for M entries in the Folio and Abridged Dictionaries of 1755 and 1756 by Samuel Johnson
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press, a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which began
A Dictionary of the English Language
…copy the illustrative quotations that he had marked in books. Johnson produced several revised editions during his life. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 173 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-eminent English dictionary. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary "easily ranks as one of…
Seven of the twenty volumes of the printed second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary (1989)
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James Murray in the Scriptorium at Banbury Road
A quotation slip as used in the compilation of the OED, illustrating the word flood