I love getting parcels in the mail and today was one of those days that I had a packaged treasure waiting in the mailbox for me after work! It’s a 1922 Webster’s New Modern Illustrated Dictionary that I purchased from ebay a couple weeks ago. Each page is naturally aged, with a generous outline of soft, copper-colored, almost burnt looking, patina. This wonderful antique dictionary is 2 1/2 inches thick, has 921 numbered pages and an additional unpaginated Reference Library included at the end, which I’m guessing is at least another 100 pages.
The Reference Library includes categories such as: Synonyms and Antonyms, Foreign Words, Phrases, Maxims and Quotations, Dictionary of Commercial and Legal Terms, Aviation Terms, Christian Names of Men and Women, Familiar Allusions, Most Common Abbreviations, Manner of Forecasting Weather, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, Table of Yearly Wages, Normal Height and Weight of Adults, Facts About the Earth, Language of Flowers, Language of Gems, Birth Stones, Birth Days and many more. There are even some colored illustrated pages in this wonderful old dictionary! I have to say that, after I carefully unwrapped my package, it was love at first sight!
If you find anything about lighthouses in your reference book – or maybe castle
If you find any pages of Jewish (Hebrew) words in your dictionary I would love to have those. I am studying Hebrew and would love to have them.
Tanya, I will plan to add the pages with the words lighthouse and castle to my blog in the near future.
I’m sorry Jackie but there are no Jewish words in the dictionary.
Julie
Hi Julie! Have you added the illustration in the middle of the three? The multi-racial one. Very nice.
Hi Marcelo,
I haven’t shared the multi-racial illustration but I will plan to add it in the near future.
Julie
Thanks Julie!