Dr. Webster's Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language
London: Bell and Daldy. Good. H. Back. 4to - over 9!" - 12" tall Thoroughly revised and improved by Chauncey A. Goodrich and Noah Porter. Bound in half tan leather with marble boards. Gilt titling on a red label band, gilt tooling to the spine. Spine is sunned and showing rubbing to top and tail and to raised bands. Front board split along nearly half of the bottom of joint with spine. Binding is overall delicate. Extremities and corners a little rubbed and scuffed. Marble endpapers, all edges marble. Bookplate to front pastedown. Browning/foxing to prelims, contents o/w clean. pp 1538. .
[Bookseller: St. Mary's Books & Prints]
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