Creator
William D. Swan
Title
A Critic Criticized: And Worcester Vindicated
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
Swan Brewer
Date
1860
Description
The 1850s were a crucial decade in the dictionary wars. An unscrupulous British publisher inflamed the situation: Henry G. Bohn acquired the British rights to Worcester’s 1846 Universal and Critical Dictionary, where the preface explained that Worcester hadn’t used Webster’s work. Nevertheless, Bohn reworked the title to say that the dictionary was Compiled from the Materials of Noah Webster. On the spine he put “Webster Worcester’s English Dictionary.” That instigated eight years of indignant pamphleteering between the Merriams and Worcester’s American publisher.
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 77