Johnson Samuel:
Dr Johnson's Dictionary
Editor: DavidCrystal
Penguin Books Ltd (United Kingdom), 2005
Hardback, 704 pages
ISBN: 9780713998870
ISBN-10: 0713998873
List price: £19.99
You save: 30%
Dr Johnson's Dictionary
"Samuel Johnson's Dictionary", published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. It was used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, among others. This edition contains a selection from the original, offering passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics.

