An American dictionary of the English language; containing the whole vocabulary of the first edition in two volumes quarto ... Revised and enlarged by Chauncey Goodrich by Webster, Noah - 1849

Springfield: George & Charles Merriam, 1849. Second printing of the first Webster dictionary published by the Merriams, large, thick 4to, pp. lxxxiv, 1367; engraved portrait of Webster by Andrews after Samuel F.B. Morse, text in triple column; full original sheep, black morocco label on spine; minor wear, but on the whole a very good, sound copy, and better than most. A Merriam incunable, preceded only by the 1848 printing of the same, and the 1845 issue of the unsold sheets of the 1841 edition in 2 volumes, with cancelled Merriam title-pp. and other additions (see Skeel 588). An 1847 Merriam edition as reported first by Leavitt and subsequently by Burkett is by all accounts a ghost. The book was surely published on September 24th, 1847, but almost as surely with a title dated 1848, as no copy of an 1847 edition is extant.