[Rarebooks] FS: First Octavo Edition of Webster's DICTIONARY, 1841

[Charles Agvent]

WEBSTER, Noah. AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLAND LANGUAGE; FIRST 
EDITION IN OCTAVO, Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the Quarto, with 
Corrections, Improvements and Several Thousand Additional Words: To 
which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History 
and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and Europe, with an 
Explanation of the Principles on which Languages are Formed. New Haven, 
CT: Published by the author, 1841. First Octavo Edition. Two royal 
octavo (7" x 10-1/2") volumes in contemporary calf leather with 
gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. 
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Webster's groundbreaking 
dictionary was originally published in New York in 1828 in a slightly 
larger format. Laid in is the Preface to the Revised Edition of 1847. 
Light, scattered foxing; stain at bottom margin of first volume not 
affecting text. Covers rubbed with some loss of leather and staining to 
first volume; binding tight and firm. Very Good.

PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 291: "Webster was an ardent nationalist and 
he wanted to stress the political separation from Britain by the 
cultivation of a separate American language. Under the influence of his 
friend Benjamin Franklin he turned his attention to 'a reformed mode of 
spelling,' and although he rejected the radical phonetic innovations 
proposed by Franklin, he went far enough to give many printed American 
words a distinctive appearance." (#021534)        $2,000

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