{"product_id":"websters-third-new-international-dictionary-of-the-english-language-unabridged-easton-press-collectors-edition","title":"Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Easton Press Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMERRIAM-WEBSTER, INC.\u003c\/strong\u003e (ed.-in-chief Philip Babcock Gove; founded upon the lexicographical work of Noah Webster). \u003cem\u003eWebster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eQuarto. Full deep blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design and lettering to covers and spine. All edges decorated with red speckle. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 2,661, [i]pp. \u003cstrong\u003eCollector's Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published Springfield, Massachusetts: G. \u0026amp; C. Merriam Company, 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNoah Webster (1758–1843) published his \u003cem\u003eAmerican Dictionary of the English Language\u003c\/em\u003e in 1828, the foundational act of American lexicography: a work that deliberately differentiated American English from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary, and that made the argument, in its prefatory material, that a democratic republic required its own linguistic identity. Webster's name became synonymous with the dictionary in the United States, and when Merriam-Webster's predecessors acquired the rights to his work after his death and began producing revised and expanded editions, the brand was established that has carried his name through every subsequent iteration of the enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Third New International Dictionary, published by G. \u0026amp; C. Merriam in 1961 under the editorship of Philip Babcock Gove (1902–1972), was the most comprehensive and the most controversial dictionary ever published in the English language. With over 470,000 entries and more than 100,000 illustrative quotations drawn from actual usage across an enormous range of sources, it represented the fullest realisation of the descriptive approach to lexicography: the view that a dictionary's function is to record how language is actually used, not to prescribe how it ought to be used. The distinction was not merely academic. The Third International's willingness to include terms previously considered too colloquial or too new for dictionary treatment, and its practice of recording usage rather than passing judgment on it, generated a furore of criticism from conservative commentators that reads, in retrospect, as a precise index of the cultural anxieties of its moment. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e editorialised against it. Wilson Follett, writing in the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, called it \"a scandal and a disaster.\" The dictionary survived the controversy and is now recognised as one of the great scholarly achievements of twentieth-century American publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery good. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome loss to lower cover gilt and some mild markings. Otherwise, fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note: This is a large and heavy single-volume quarto reference work and may require additional postage costs. If so, we will contact you after purchase.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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