TY  - JOUR
AB  - Just two hundred years ago, on April 15th, 1755, there was published, in two large folio volumes, one of the greatest of English books, A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson, A.M., issued, after the manner of the time, by a group of shareholding book‐sellers, or, as we should call them, publishers, the Knaptons, the Longmans, Hitch and Hawes, Millar, and the Dodsleys. Such a single‐handed work can hardly ever have been seen. The French forty Immortals of the Academy had taken forty years over their dictionary of the French language; Johnson proposed to take three (he actually took about seven) over his, a comparison which provided him with material for a sportive equation of an Englishman to a Frenchman being as three is to forty multiplied by forty, i.e., 1,600.
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb012236
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012236
AU  - ESDAILE ARUNDELL
PY  - 1955
Y1  - 1955/01/01
TI  - Johnson's Dictionary
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 146
EP  - 149
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -