Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, The Merriam Series, W.T. Harris & F. Sturges Allen, 1923
Weighing in at 6.75 kg (almost 15lbs), a very substantial heavyweight Dictionary of more than 2,500 pages, plus illustrations and Plates.
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary of 1890 and 1900. Now Completely Revised in All Departments Including Also A Dictionary of Geography and Biography, Being The Latest Authentic Quarto Edition of The Merriam Series. By W.T. Harris, PH.D., LL.D., Editor In Chief, and F. Sturges Allen, General Editor.
Published by G & C Merriam Company, Springfield, Mass., U.S.A., 1923.
A good hardback with brown cloth boards, with blind embossed decoration, gilt title roundel to front, raised bands, red and black morocco labels, with gilt titles. Covers are scuffed, rubbed and bumped.
With marbled endpapers with bookplate of 'Lt. Col. W.J. MacDougald' to first pastedown. Cracked to gutter after first blank free endpaper, but all remaining text block is soundly bound.
Text is bright and clean throughout, with illustrations and plates well-presented. Text pages with semi circular tabbed cut-outs. Mostly with printed black tabs with gold lettering. A few of the black tabs are now absent. With featherd marbling to edge of text block - now a little faded.
A substantial addition to a dictionary collector's library.
Text in English.
VIII Plates + Guarded frontispiece + cx + 2620pp + (4) Publisher's Advertisements + Additional Plates in text.
Weight approximately 6.75kg (unpacked).
Dimensions: Approximately 314mm high x 245mm wide x 125mm deep. Substantial.
