Johnson's Dictionary A Modern Selection Author:E. L. McAdam, Jr. & George Milne From the flyleaf: — This is the first modern edition of Samuel Johnson's "English Dictionary", a work which formed and defined our language for over a century...Now [the editors] have created a new selection for the contemporary reader. First of all they have retained most of the entries which can no longer be found in most modern dictionaries..... more ».[The entries] offer us a complete new vocabulary and serve as a mirror of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.« less