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from Part III - Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
BOOK. n.s. [boc, Sax. supposed from boc, a beech; because they wrote on beechen boards, as liber in Latin, from the rind of a tree.]
1. A volume in which we read or write.
See a book of prayer in his hand;
True ornaments to know a holy man. Shakesp. Richard III.
Most of Samuel Johnson’s major undertakings – A Dictionary of the English Language, The Plays of William Shakespeare, and The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets – were commissioned by booksellers. As the son of a bookseller, a professional author, and a keen observer of the book trade, Johnson understood the business of books far better than most of his contemporaries. Accordingly, no student of Johnson should neglect this highly important aspect of his life and times.
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