Webster’s Improved Dictionary of the English Language, exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, & definition of words; embracing all the principal terms used in literature, science & art, according to the best authorities; revised and enlarged by Professor C. A. Goodrich, Yale College, U. S. VOL. I. William Mackenzie. London, Glasgow, & Edinburgh.
A Dictionary of the English Language; exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words. By Noah Webster, LL. D. To which are added, a synopsis of words differently pronounced by different ortho・pists, and Walker’s key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture names. Revised and enlarged by Professor C. A. Goodrich. With the addition of an ortho・pic vocabulary of modern geographical names. A new edition, corrected, improved, and enlarged, by Thomas Heber Orr, discoverer of the process or primitive wordgrowth. With an introductory essay on the philosophy of language and general grammar, by Sir John Stoddart, Knt., LL. D. and a sketch of the origin and progress of the art of writing, by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of “The illuminated books of the middle ages.” Volume I. William Mackenzie, 45 & 47 Howard Street, Glasgow: 39 South Bridge, Edinburgh; 22 Paternoster Row, London.
・構 成第I巻は本文(A-L)が613頁までで、その後に The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing. By Henry Noel Humphreys.(pp. 1-111) が続く。第II巻では本文(M-Z)は540頁までで、その後に各種の附録が続く。A Key to the Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, & Scripture Proper Names. (p. 541-586) Terminational Vocabulary of Greek and Latin Proper Names. (pp. 587-620) A Vocabulary, Giving the Pronunciation of Modern Geographical Names. (pp. 621-648) The Philosophy of Language; Comprehending Universal Grammar. By Sir John Stoddart, Knt., LL. D. Revised by the author, and Edited by William Hazlitt, Esq., Barbister-at-Law. (pp. 1-166) ウェブスター系辞書にはない独自の附録も加えた。
・解 説 本書も上と同じように An American Dictionary of the English Language の1847年版簡約辞書をイギリスにおいて翻刻出版したものである。しかし、本書はそれを2巻に分けている。本文は第2巻の540頁までで、その巻末に独自のエッセーが挿入された。その編集を担当したのが T. H. Orr である。