A Dictionary of the English Language… By Noah Webster, LL.D. New York, 1828… Reprinted by E.H. Barker… from a copy communicated by the author, and containing many manuscript corrections and additions: with an appendix by the editor.

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The first printing in the UK of Noah Webster's pioneering dictionary, slightly modified by the English editor but retaining Webster's spelling changes and other Americanisms. Printed in an edition of 3,000 copies (with 912 subscribed for, according to the subscriber's list in this copy), it sold relatively well in the UK - to the embarassment of English lexicographers - because it was the first major dictionary not based on Johnson's work from the previous century. This example is an early issue with the title-page in vol. 1 dated 1831, and is complete with the rarely-found publisher's advertisements and subscriber's list.