Editing Webster's Dictionary (section)

=== British influence ===
In 1850, Blackie and Son in Glasgow published the first general dictionary of English that made heavy use of pictorial illustrations integrated with the text, ''The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific, Adapted to the Present State of Literature, Science, and Art; On the Basis of Webster's English Dictionary''. Editor John Ogilve used Webster's 1841 edition as a base, adding many new, specialized, and British words, increasing the vocabulary from ''Webster''{{'}}s 70,000 to more than 100,000.<ref>Michael Hancher, "Gazing at the Imperial Dictionary", ''Book History'', Volume 1, 1998, pp. 156–181 {{doi|10.1353/bh.1998.0006}}</ref>