Author: WHITNEY, WILLIAM DWIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Title: The Century Dictionary - An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language
Description: NY, The Century Company, 1889. 1889. Hardcover . Hardback set, folio, appx 10 x 13 inches, total pages xviii + 7046 + xxx, dark brown titling on light brown cloth, overall About VG. A little wear to corners and spine-ends with minor fraying + occasional nick or bump (not much affect at all to the overall clean, sound appearance of the set). Inspection reveals one one-inch tear at a fore-edge (not affecting type) + two five-inch tears that do run through about half of each of the pages affected. (Tears repaired with archival paper tape.) At the end is a thirty page list of Amended [or alternate] Spellings, along with a Supplementary Note to the Preface dated October 1st, 1891. Very Good.

Keywords: English Language Dictionary Reference Literature 19th Century