You’re quite right. It’s an American imprint without a specific date of printing. I suspect it was 1917–1918.

Back of the dustjacket for a 1910 book I’m reading. What book? you ask. Sorry, I won’t say. Cheers.

First day of my two-week sprint to finish my military dictionary book! Kicking it off at the The Grolier Club with an exhibit on English lexicography! A.k.a. Living my academic dreams…

Lots of people call this type of stuff “swag.” At the Grolier Club in NYC it’s called “ephemera.” ⁦The Grolier Club⁩ #books #exhibitions

Today is the second day of the Hardly Harmless Drudgery exhibit at the Grolier Club in NYC. Go see it if you can 47 E. 60th St.

Quite a view tonight of the Empire State Building. #nyc #newyork #empirestatebuilding

My latest contribution to the Bryan A. Garner retirement fund has arrived!

The big exhibition begins tomorrow in NYC. For the duration, this banner will be flown outside the Grolier Club. #dictionaries #books #museums #collecting #bibliophiles #lexicography

I figured, “What the Volume III?”

I bought it. :-)

I bought it. :-)

Thank you, Stepan.

One of six volumes: a 1743 dictionary.

David Andelman has written a fine preview of the Grolier Club exhibition “Hardly Harmless Drudgery” in NYC. airmail.news/issues/2024-4-…

You can see the exhibition, which I curated with Jack Lynch, beginning Thursday. The Grolier Club Jack Lynch #dictionaries #bookstagram

Never before, I’ll bet, has the word “tautological” been used so many times in an oral argument. #SCOTUS #immunity

Dreeben said (in so many words), “The current system works pretty well without the radical new immunity that [the former President] urges.” Justice Barrett responded, “I would agree.” #SCOTUS #dreeben #SupremeCourt #Immunity

Happy 460th!

My pool noodles didn’t deter the ducks, which kept showing up at my pool in greater numbers. So I beheaded a croc, took it to a taxidermist, and… Nah, I bought a plastic croc head that floats in the pool. All the proceedings are presided over by three well-placed owls. #ducks

A visitor from Japan the other day said, “You must not have earthquakes in Dallas!” Rarely do we have them. This corbel, one of my favorites, is from Austria. #corbels #art #wedgwood #parian (previous post)