Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

Title:

The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

Published / Created:

London, Printed for J. and P. Knapton ...

Physical Description:

1 p.l., 34 p. 26 cm. (4to)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PE1617 J7 J7 1755
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BEIN Tinker 1301: First ed., first state; p. 34, line 1 ends "and in". Bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis.

BEIN Im J637 747p copy 1: Page 34, line 1 ends "and in the".

BEIN Im J637 747p copy 3: Page 34, line 1 ends "and in". Stabbed, in brownish gray paper wrappers. Height 27 cm., in case 28 cm.

BEIN Im J637 747p copy 2: Page 34, line 1 ends "and in".

BEIN Im J637 747pb: Collation varies: 1 p.l., 37 p.; height 21 cm.; signatures: pi1 A-D⁴ E⁴(-E4); (8vo) "Non-Chesterfield" variant?

BEIN 1978 +187: The so-called "non-Chesterfield" variant, in which the words "To the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, earl of Chesterfield" are omitted before "My lord" on p.1, and quire A is printed from a different setting of type. -- cf. R.F. Metzdorf, The Library, ser. 4, v. 19.

BEIN 1977 2757: Collation varies: 1 p.l., 37 p.; height 23 cm.; (8vo); the so-called "non-Chesterfield" variant--cf. Metzdorf, R.F. The Library, ser. 4, v. 19.

BAC: Collation varies: 1 p.l., 37 p.; height 21 cm.; signatures [pi]1 A-D⁴ E⁴(-E4); (8vo) "Non-Chesterfield" variant? This copy is the reprint of 1755.

Signatures: pi1 A-D⁴ E1.

Tinker Library, 1301

Courtney & Smith. Bibl. of Samuel Johnson, p. 20

Subject Terms:

Bemis, Frank Brewer, 1861–1935 -- Bookplate. | English language -- Lexicography. | Knapton (J. and P.) -- Publisher.

Contributors:

Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784. Dictionary of the English language.