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A pile of dictionaries on a table near a whitewashed wall.

Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language.

Bailey’s Dictionary, 1737

Jacobi’s Geste Typographica

Bailey’s Dictionary, 1737 (a different one)

Jacobi’s The printers’ Vocabulary

Grose’s Provincial Glossary

I have extracts from some of these dictionaries online.

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Date: 2013:07:15 10:18:31

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