Third edition, later issue, of Grose's classic slang dictionary of 18th-century colloquial and ungentlemanly nouns and verbs.

First edition this epochal work, described by Noah Webster as having accomplished "in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics" (quoted in PMM).

First issue in book form of the complete original 10-volume set of the most expansive printed English dictionary in history, a monument of informational ambition matched perhaps only by modern Wikipedia in English.

First printing of this English etymological dictionary of the 1940s, published in the final year of World War II under wartime production restrictions and with a number of sharply topical references scattered throughout.

Terrific association copy of the first edition of Webster's epochal reference book, from the library of G. & C. Merriam Company, which eventually merged and published the first Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1847.