Editing Webster's Dictionary (section)

=== First edition 1828 ===
[[File:American Dictionary of the English Language 1828.jpg|thumb|Title page of the 1828 first edition of the ''American Dictionary of the English Language'' featuring an engraving of Noah Webster]]
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In 1828, when Noah Webster was 70, his ''American Dictionary of the English Language'' was published by S. Converse in two [[Bookbinding#Terms and techniques|quarto]] volumes containing 70,000 entries,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/21012201 |title=Catalog entry |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407155245/https://lccn.loc.gov/21012201 |url-status=live }}</ref> as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary. There were 2,500 copies printed, at $20 (adjusted for 2023 inflation: $647.73) for the two volumes. At first the set sold poorly. When he lowered the price to $15 (adjusted for 2023 inflation: $485.80), its sales improved, and by 1836 that edition was exhausted.<ref>Skeel, Emily. ''A Bibliography of the Writings of Noah Webster'' (1958), p. 234.</ref> "Not all copies were bound at the same time; the book also appeared in publisher's boards; other original bindings of a later date are not unknown."<ref name="rulon">{{cite web|url=http://www.rulon.com/Catpages/online/recent_acq_sept_2009.html|title=Rulon-Miller Books :: Recent Acquisitions|access-date=May 31, 2011|archive-date=July 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723091809/http://www.rulon.com/Catpages/online/recent_acq_sept_2009.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>