This handsome, comprehensive set is a genuine Merriam-Webster edition, widely respected for its authority and durability. It is a 3-volume unabridged edition of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language and features an added multilingual supplement in collaboration with Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. This is a substantial reference work and belongs in any serious library or as a valuable collector's set. At the same time, it is a real delight to discover new terms, concepts and words just by flipping to any random page!
Printed on high-quality leatherette hardcover, with gold stamping and acid-free paper, this is a superb reference for scholars, linguists, language enthusiasts, polyglots, and collectors alike. The condition is excellent and the Smyth sewn binding is impeccable. This is one of the last comprehensive pre-digital English dictionaries, built before algorithmic truncation changed how we define language.
Volume III includes the Britannica World Language Dictionary, a unique two-part resource:
Part I: ~6,000 of the most commonly used English words with their closest equivalents in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish
Part II: Reverses the format with translations from each of those six languages back into English, including grammar sections for each language.
ISBN: 0-85229-503-0
Copyright: 1986 (a deluxe re-print from the principal copyright 1961)
Published by: Merriam-Webster Inc. / Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.
Condition: Excellent (like new) — clean interiors, firm bindings, no shelf wear. Minor white paint mark on bottom edge of one volume from shelf (image 3) but this can be removed with care.
All 3 volumes together weigh 6566g. Dimensions for each book approximately 24x32.5x4cm
