Pictorial Webster's : : a Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
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On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Artist's introduction -- A-Z engravings from nineteenth century Merriam-Webster dictionaries & 20th century images -- Pancreas -- Notes and commentary -- Original Webster's production -- Black field blocks -- Index numbers -- The tools -- Andrew's Wiggle -- Pictorial progression -- Specific notes on engravings and errata -- Webster, G. & C. Merriam and the illustrated dictionary -- Dictionary timeline -- Pictorial Webster's: sourcebook for creativity -- Hypothesis of memory and thought as repeated and compared pattern -- Adam's glossary -- Artist's annotated bibliography.
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PUBLISHED
San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxv, 483 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780811867184
0811867188
SUBJECTS
Webster, Noah, -- 1758-1843. -- Illustrations.
Carrera, John.
G. & C. Merriam Company.
Wood engraving, American -- 19th century.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Illustrations.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Publishing -- Springfield.