Friday giveaway, right on time.
Today is a old Webster's "American Dictionary" published in 1843 by Harper & Brothers. Full leather binding, big thick book. Meaty. 8 inches by 10 inches with 1079 pages.
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60 comments:
WOW that looks great! Count me in.
Thank you for this delicious visual inspiration :)
ooh how fun! count me in, too!
Count me in please :)
Oh man, I am so in.
I'm in! Please.
Oh, yes, please count this as an entry!
I'm a librarian and I would love to have that dictionary. I would give it an amazing home. :)
I love meaty, in regards to book meat that is.
I can haz book please? :)
Beautiful. My mom is the youngest of four sisters and as the youngest she graduated from college last. It had been a tradition for the four sisters to pass down their mother's dictionary from one to the other and eventually I ended up with it. Though my girlfriend doesn't really understand, that book with all it's coffee stains, ripped pages, scribbled notes and even a duct tape repair is one of my most prized possessions.
Count me in!
awesome giveaway. I would look up the word "fanny." I imagine the example sentence looking something like this: "Goodness, Marcus, perchance your gaze has happened upon Gwendolyn's robust fanny?"
This would make an awesome gift to my wife who is an English professor. Thanks for the opportunity.
That is a truly momentous book! Wherever did you find it?
OH MY GOD HOW do you offer these things for free?
get get get
Lovely!
Fabulous! I would love to be it's new owner.
Oh I would so love this as I collect them!
yes please!!
Love old dictionaries. ...
Amazing this book is still around and looks in great shape!
Thank you for another giveaway. This would be an awesome Christmas gift for my sister in law (who works for a newspaper) if I don't keep it for myself. Count me in, please!
AWESOME.
I have book envy! I'd love to enter. I have been following your blog for a while now, love it!
Alyssa
Oh this looks nice. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.
I'd love it :) Old dictionaries are nifty. Thanks for the giveaway. My email is in my blogger profile...
I'm interested. Count me in! :)
I just found this blog, and I must say I want your job. And that book. I want that book.
Oh yeah, feel some paper between your fingers while you look up words. so much more satisfying than listening to the plastic clicking of the keyboard. I'm in.
Wow, this is an amazing book!
Ok, that is so cool. Count me in! Thanks!
What! That is awesome!
I use Webster's 1828 online all the time (except that no website gives everything that's on the pages of the actual dictionary).
I so WANT this dictionary! I hope, hope, hope I win! Aren't you wonderful to give it away? (Yes, you ARE!)
Words, words, words. Count me in! :)
Words... WORDS!
I love leather... count me in on this one.
I'm in!
This book is beautiful.
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Would love to get this one...put my name in the hat, please.
Awesome! Count me in!
Yes please.
Oooh, this one looks interesting.
I literally squealed when I saw this - does that make me a pathetic nerd?
You can call me whatever you want if I win!
I love dictionaries. This is an amazing piece!
I too use the Webster's 1828 online. Not as good as a real book though. I'm too tactile a person. Most of my books, research and dictionary/thesaurus type are from C19 and I would love to add this. Imagine how many hands have paged through this over the years and what they were looking for.
Count me in please!!!
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I'd love that. Gimme an entry!
Goodness. That thing's absolutely gorgeous. Whoever does end up with the beauty is definitely very lucky.
Ooo, me me!
This is gorgeous! Please count me in!
WORD!
OOOOO! A dictionary! I love words!
Ohhh this is a piece of art...I really need to smell the pages and feel the binding. My fingers are tingling!
This is absolutely beautiful. Count me in!
Wonderful book! I'd be privileged to keep it in my care. Thanks for the give-away!
Please select me at random! I'm a dictionary nut. Maybe it's something having to do with the way they smell.
beautiful! reference books are my favorite!
oh my..this is beautiful!
I am positively lusting for this dictionary!
This would make an excellent gift for my parents :) Thank you for the chance!
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