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• The tongue of men and angels / Eric Korn
• Paired letters in Johnson's Dictionary / Ian Jackson
• Binding and collation
• Provenance
• Johnson's Plan and its predecessors / Ian Jackson
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• Book images : A dictionary of the English language, 1755 (with searchable live text) ; The plan of a dictionary, 1747.

Digitized facsimile of the copy in the Warnock Library (Dictionary) and the Library of Congress (The plan of a dictionary). Text is searchable.

This simple presentation scheme allows readers to see how objects can be both the same and different in the eyes of various artists, cultures and time periods. Children will be fascinated to discover that boars, roses, trees or even windows can be so different from one another and from those they see every day. Adults will love the visual and cultural richness of the alphabetical tour through the Metropolitan Museum's collection. A fact section at the end of the book provides more details about each piece of art and its creator.
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This abridged edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" contains 220,000 entries, and illustrates definitions with quotations which show precisely how the meanings of words have changed over the centuries. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, etymology, definitions, variant spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and a record of the word's use.
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A handy desk dictionary of English, this is a fresh abridgement of the 2nd edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary", incorporating all of the key features of that volume.
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