Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature. To which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, and a copious chronological table of remarkable events, discoveries, and inventions. By the Rev. Joseph Hamilton, M.A.
Newburyport [MA]: Published by Thomas & Whipple. Greenough & Stebbins, Printers, Nov. 1806.
Price: $350.00
About the item
"Second American edition" Engraved frontispiece portrait signed "Edwin sc." [5], 8-276 pp., text in double columns. 12mo. Modern blue buckram, preserving old red morocco lettering piece. Offsetting to title page from frontispiece, some spotting and ink stains to fore-edge and margins. Shaw & Shoemaker, 10643; not in Fleeman. OCLC locates 2 copies; not in AAS.
Item #244515
A pocket-sized abridgment of Johnson's Dictionary, from the 14th London edition. Styled the second American edition - there were identically titled editions printed in Boston in 1804 and 1806, while the first unabridged American edition was not published until 1818.
