The Century Dictionary And Cyclopedia. A Work Of Universal Reference In All Departments Of Knowledge With A New Atlas Of The World Whitney, William Dwight Cartography,Dictionaries,Language

Large 4to, 10 volumes, text in triple column, numerous illustrations in the text throughout, volume IX is the Century Cyclopedia of Names, and volume X is the Century Atlas of the World, prepared by Benjamin E. Smith, which includes 20 historical and astronomical maps as well as 117 modern maps, all in color; original half black morocco, gilt-stamped spines; the whole scuffed and rubbed, but sound; volume VIII has been rebacked with the original spine laid down; a good set. In 1882 Charles Annandale greatly enlarged Ogilvie's Imperial Dictionary (1850), which came to be the basis for The Century Dictionary, an American work modeled after the OED. Whitney, the well-known Sanskrit scholar and linguist, was its editor. "Beautifully printed.it is surely one of the handsomest dictionaries ever made" (Landau, Dictionaries, p. 72).