TY - SER
AU - Allen Hillard Reddick
CY - Cambridge, England
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Introduction: Johnson's 'Mind ... on the stretch' : A Dictionary of the English Language 
'The plan of my undertaking': the composition and purpose of the Plan of a Dictionary
'I can do it in three years': a false start on the Dictionary 
'Ended, though not completed': the first edition published 
'I know not how to get loose': the fourth edition 
'Unexpected truth': the use of poetical authorities 
'Factious in a factious age': theology and politics in the fourth edition 
'The world must, at present, take it as it is': Johnson's Dictionary after 1773.
PB - Cambridge University Press
PP - Cambridge, England
PY - 1996
SN - 9780521568388
EP - 252 pp.
TI - Making of Johnson's Dictionary, 1746-1773, Rev. ed.
ER -