An American Dictionary of the English Language ...

Title: An American Dictionary of the English Language ...

Author: Webster, Noah

Publication: Springfield, Mass.: George and Charles Merriam, 1858.

Description: Noah Webster's unabridged dictionary of American English, revised and enlarged by his son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich. Contains etymologies, spellings, pronunciations, and definitions of English words. With a frontispiece portrait of Noah Webster. Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry and printed by Case, Tiffany and Company in Hartford. Bound in contemporary full brown calfskin with black lettering piece on the spine, sewn on five supports, with printed endpapers containing testimonials about the dictionary. Quarto; 10.5 x 8.25 inches; lxxxiv, 1376, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates. Binding considerably rubbed and edgeworn, with cracking and surface loss to the leather on the spine, moderate foxing of endpapers and several adjoining leaves, and closed tears on four leaves of text. Very Good-. A worn, but intact copy.