Samuel Johnson s Unpublished Revisions to Dictionary of English - A Facsimile Edition

Informationen zum Autor Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich. Klappentext A facsimile, transcription and explanation of Johnson's own corrections to his Dictionary of the English Language. Zusammenfassung This edition makes available for the first time the largest collection of unpublished material by the great eighteenth-century writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in existence. Johnson's corrections and amendments to his Dictionary! constituting a revision never printed! are reproduced here in facsimile! with a transcription! an extensive commentary and notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; The British Library copy: description and provenance (with the Sneyd-Gimbel copy); The printer's copy for the letter B; George Stevens and Samuel Johnson; Notes on selected changes and annotations; Introduction; Notes; Policy of citing sources; Editions cited and works quoted; Facsimile; Transcription; Appendix: The Sneyd-Gimbel copy; Examples from the Sneyd-Gimbel copy.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Johnson
• Assisted by: Allen Reddick (Editor), Allen (Universitat Zurich) Reddick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521844703
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84470-3
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries