Wadham's First Edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

Wadham English tutor (and Fellow Librarian) Prof. Jane Griffiths talks to Prof. Lynda Mugglestone from Pembroke College about our first edition of Samuel Johnson's 'A dictionary of the English Language' (1755).

For good measure, we borrowed another first edition from Pembroke, where Johnson was a student for a time, and compared it with ours - with some fascinating results. And of course the film also tells the story of the making of the dictionary more generally: