Creator
Joseph Worcester
Title
A Dictionary of the English Language
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
Hickling, Swan & Brewer
Date
1860
Description
The preface to Worcester’s big dictionary, 30 years in the making, magnanimously praised both Noah Webster and Chauncey Goodrich. Perhaps it was doomed from the beginning: Worcester had been fending off accusations of literary wrongdoing for years. However unjust the charges were, he couldn’t shake them. Meanwhile, this careful dictionary—the best that had ever appeared on the American market—merely spurred the Merriam team (much of the Yale faculty) to redouble its efforts.
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 79