Robert Dodsley
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Robert Dodsley was an English bookseller, publisher, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer.
Dodsley by Reynolds, 1760
Title page of the first edition of A Select Collection of Old Plays (1744)
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
Robert Dodsley
…Samuel Johnson's London for which he paid ten guineas in 1738. He published many of Johnson's works, and he suggested and helped to finance Johnson's Dictionary. Pope also made over to Dodsley his interest in his letters. In 1738, the publication of Paul Whitehead's Manners was voted scandalous by the House of…
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