Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of the English Language

A Facsimile Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-521-84470-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 325 mm, Gewicht: 2785 g

This edition makes available for the first time the largest collection of unpublished material by the great eighteenth-century writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in existence. For the revised fourth edition (1773) of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson and his amanuensis annotated over one hundred and twenty interleaved folio pages of the first edition, but the printer for unknown reasons failed to include the corrections. These pages, including hundreds of authorial additions and changes to the text, are reproduced here in facsimile, along with a transcription, an extensive commentary and notes. This extraordinary archive offers a unique record of Johnson's methods of revision, his collaboration with his assistants, and the preparation of printer's copy in general. Johnson's deletion and editing of hundreds of new quotations, notes, and definitions contributed by others sheds much new light on his intentions for his work and his attitudes towards language and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Samuel

Reddick, Allen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Mehrsprachige Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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