turnbullrarebooks: Happy Birthday, Samuel Johnson!The great 18th-century man of letters Samuel Johns
turnbullrarebooks:Happy Birthday, Samuel Johnson!The great 18th-century man of letters Samuel Johnson was born 308 years ago on this day (18 September) in 1709.Today Johnson is perhaps best remembered as the author and compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), which remained the standard English dictionary until the publication of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1884, and as the subject of his friend James Boswell’s magnum opus, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).–James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson …. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCXCI[1791], two volumes; Alexander Turnbull Library, qREng BOSW Life 1791, copy 2.Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language …. London: printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, MDCCLV [1755], two volumes; Alexander Turnbull Library, fREng JOHN Dict 1755. -- source link
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