This edition makes available for the first time the largest collection of unpublished material by the great eigteenth-century writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in existence. For the revised fourth edition (1773) of Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson and his amanuensis annotated over one hundred and twenty interleaved folio of the first edition, but the printer for unknown reasons failed to include the corrections. These , including hundreds of authorial additions and changes to the text, are reproduced here in facsimile, along with a transcription, an extensive commentary and notes. This extraordinary archive offers a unique record of Johnson's methods of revision, his collaboration with his assistants, and the preparation of printer's copy in general. Johnson's deletion and editing of hundreds of new quotations, notes, and definitions contributed by others sheds much new light on his intentions for his work and his attitudes towards language and literature.

Introduction
The British Library copy
description and provenance (with the Sneyd-Gimbel copy)
The printer's copy for the letter B
George Stevens and Samuel Johnson
Notes on selected changes and annotations
Introduction
Notes
Policy of citing sources
Editions cited and works quoted
Facsimile
Transcription
Appendix
The Sneyd-Gimbel copy
Examples from the Sneyd-Gimbel copy.

Allen Reddick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zurich.

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