Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of the English Language

A Facsimile Edition
Ed.: Allen Reddick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A facsimile, transcription and explanation of Johnson's own corrections to his Dictionary of the English Language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Facs.
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 325mm x 246mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 2840g
• ISBN-13: 9780521844703
• ISBN-10: 0521844703
• Artikelnr.: 14745991

Autorenporträt

Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

'Reddick's opulent facsimile edition ... was designed with the needs of an academic audience in mind. ... This facsimile edition makes the main part of those unique documents widely available for the first time ... The core of Reddick's edition consists of high-quality reproductions of all the first-edition pages ... the book is well designed and pleasantly easy to use, given the complexity of the materials ... cheer and new fodder to Johnsonians worldwide.' The Times Literary Supplement