SHERIDAN, Thomas. A General Dictionary of the English Language. London: J. Dodsley, C. Dilly and J. Wilkie, 1780. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (257 x 203mm.) Half-titles, 7pp. ‘List of Subscribers’. (Browning and light spotting to the preliminaries, occasionally thereafter, dust-soiling to pastedowns, lacking list of Sheridan’s works to rear of vol. 2.) Contemporary tree calf, red and brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (minor loss to spine ends and joints, extremities bumped, upper hinge of vol. 2 weakened). Provenance: John Thackeray (bookplate to front pastedown); Christ’s Hospital (presentation plate to front pastedown). – And a further three volumes (Samuel Johnson’s ‘Dictionary of the English Language’, 2 vols., ninth edition, 1806, 8vo, and Mary Tighe’s ‘Psyche, With Other Poems’, 1811, 4to) (5).