Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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"description": "Librivox recording of A Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of English by Samuel Johnson.Read by Denny Sayers.
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1\u00bd feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of 34/10s. ($400?). It would be years before \u201cJohnson\u2019s Dictionary\u201d, as it came to be known, would ever turn a profit; authors\u2019 royalities being unknown at that time, Johnson, once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no further monies connected to the book.
Johnson, once again a freelance writer, albeit now a famous one, faced a grim hand-to-mouth existence; however, in July 1762 the twenty-four year old King George III granted Johnson an annual pension of 3300. While not making Johnson rich, it allowed him a modest yet comfortable independence for the remaining thirty years of his life.
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