Plan And Preface To A Dictionary Of The English Language (Unabridged)
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Aug 2022 · Slingshot Books LLC · Narrated by Jose Rutherford
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The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 11⁄2 feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. . It would be years before "Johnson's Dictionary", as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors' royalties being unknown at that time, Johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no further monies connected to the book. Johnson, once again a freelance writer, albeit now a famous one, faced a grim hand-to-mouth existence; however, in July 1762 the twenty-four year old King George III granted Johnson an annual pension of £300. While not making Johnson rich, it allowed him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining thirty years of his life. .
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 11⁄2 feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s. . It would be years before "Johnson's Dictionary", as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors' royalties being unknow...
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