JOHNSON, Samuel. Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: J.F. & C. Rivington et al., 1785. Seventh edition, folio (413 x 256mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds. (Frontispiece with chipped margins and a tear, laid-down, title-page with marginal paper repairs and first and last leaves also, browning, minor spotting.) 19th century calf-backed paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). Note: the first unabridged edition in one volume, published just after Johnson's death.