Samuel Johnson's Dictionary took nine years to write and included 42,773 entries.This large two volume book is one of the first editions of the famous dictionary written by Samuel Johnson ...

Dramadocumentary telling the story of Samuel Johnsons creation of the first English dictionary in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London The depressive writerforhire with Tourettes ...

The painter William Hogarth said that when he first met ... his work on the dictionary, through his wit, his shade, his incredibly quotable and repeatable epigrams, Samuel Johnson's personality ...

Following his Dictionary, Samuel Johnson is perhaps most famous for saying 'when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life…', but is also remembered for having the ability to sum up a ...

It was published in Paris in 1732, over 20 years before Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, deemed to be the first modern English dictionary. An ornately bound book, The History ...