Dictionary Collection (page 26)

Type of hammer. Illustration from Dictionary
" Type of hammer. Illustration from " Dictionary of Architecture and Engineering", by Pelayo Clairac S᥮ z, 1879. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid

James G Blunt
JAMES G BLUNT - Websters biographical dictionary doesn t mention this American Major-General, doubtless a participant in the Civil War. But heres his autograph, too. Date: 1826 - 1881

Michael Bryan
MICHAEL BRYAN Art connoisseur and historian, whose Dictionary of Painters and Engravers is one of our standard reference books. Date: 1757 - 1821

Metropolitan Police Glossary of Words instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Glossary of Words in Common Police Use

Adverts for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management
Two pages of advertisements for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management and other Cookery Books, still going strong in the early 20th century

A War Dictionary
A number of new war-influenced expressions in one cartoon including the strafe (punish) and blighty (Britain), during First World War

Samuel Johnson / Humphreys
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Samuel Johnson / Finden
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Samuel Johnson / Darton
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Samuel Johnson / Adlard
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Samuel Johnson / Davenport
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Samuel Johnson / Gough Sq
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers home at 17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, where he lived while compiling his Dictionary

Samuel Johnson / Lichfield
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writers birthplace at Lichfield, Staffordshire, showing a busy market place

SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709 1784
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist

Sir Herbert Croft
SIR HERBERT CROFT clergyman and literary figure, detained in France by Napoleon, wrote many and varied things, imprisoned for debt, dictionary compiler

Acad Francaise / Moloch
Caricature of the Academie Francaise, personified as a worrisome old woman compiling a dictionary

Edith Scannell Artist
EDITH MAUD SUSANNA SCANNELL an artistic lady who sadly failed to earn an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography so we don t know very much about her

French Mental Patients 2
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, classed by him as lypemaniaque (term not in any dictionary !) The lower pictures show Mme Ball... before & after treatment

Dr Johnson / Lamborn
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON Writer and lexicographer

Dr Johnson / Bolt Ct Home
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON With Boswell - at home in Bolt Court

Doctor Johnson Eating
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON Caricatured with Boswell as a pair of gourmands

Dr Johnson / Deathbed
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON On his deathbed

Dr Johnson / Heath / Reynold
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer, lexicographer, critic and conversationalist at his desk with pen in hand in 1756

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