TY  - BOOK
N2  - Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick describes the conception, composition, writing, and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary, and the only dictionary created by a great writer. In this second edition of his acclaimed study, Reddick incorporates new commentary and scholarship, and situates The Making of Johnson's Dictionary in current critical and scholarly debate.
AB  - Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick describes the conception, composition, writing, and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary, and the only dictionary created by a great writer. In this second edition of his acclaimed study, Reddick incorporates new commentary and scholarship, and situates The Making of Johnson's Dictionary in current critical and scholarly debate.
T1  - The making of Johnson's dictionary, 1746-1773 /
DA  - 1996.
CY  - Cambridge [England] ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Reddick, Allen Hilliard.
AU  - Johnson, Samuel,
ET  - Rev. ed.
CN  - PE1617.J7
CN  - PE1617.J7
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge [England] ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 1996.
ID  - 433729
KW  - English language
KW  - Encyclopedias and dictionaries
KW  - English language
SN  - 9780521568388 (pbk.)
SN  - 0521568382 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780521361606
SN  - 0521361605
TI  - The making of Johnson's dictionary, 1746-1773 /
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ER  -