An American Dictionary of the English Language. Thoroughly Revised, and Greatly Enlarged and Improved

lxxxi, [1], 1761, [5] pp. 4to. Full leather, stamped borders on front and rear boards, Webster ads on endpapers, illustrations throughout text. A revision of Webster's monumental achievement of lexicography, edited by Chauncey A. Goodrich (a Yale professor, and Webster's son-in-law) and Noah Porter (president of Yale). Includes preface by Noah Porter, an index of illustrations. These include a color frontispiece, three color plates, and a section of several dozen engravings (including images of birds and animals, human anatomical drawings, mechanical drawings, military weapons and armor, scientific instruments, etc.). Prefaces to two earlier editions, and a biographical sketch of Noah Webster by Goodrich, precede the text, and following the text are several appendices: An Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places; Including also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed upon Eminent Men, and Such Analogous Popular Appellations as Are Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation, by William A. Wheeler, M.A.; Pronouncing Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names., by William A. Wheeler, M.A.; Pronouncing Vocabulary of Greek and Latin Proper Names; Etymological Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names; Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Biographical Names; Pronouncing Vocabulary of Common English Christian Names. with Their Derivation, Signification, and Diminutives, or Nicknames, and Their Equivalents in Several Other Languages; Quotations, Words, Phrases, Proverbs, and Colloquial Expressions, from the Greek, the Latin, and Modern Foreign Languages, Frequently Occurring in English Books, in Periodicals, and in Conversation, Rendered into English, selected and translated by William G. Webster; Abbreviations and Contractions Used in Writing and Printing.; Arbitrary Signs Used in Writing and Printing.; A Classified Section of Pictorial Illustrations for Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; Ancient Alphabets, [with] Comparative Table of Hieroglyphic and Alphabetic Characters.