THE 'N.Z. GRAPHIC’ PREMIUM WEBSTER’S

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 348

THE 'N.Z. GRAPHIC’ PREMIUM WEBSTER’S

UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY. • REPRINT EDITION. Large Quarto, 11 x 9 inches, 5 inches thick, 1531 pages, 91bs weight. THE FAMOUS BECKTOLD EDITION. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Within a few months past the copyright which has covered the great Webster’s Dictionary has expired, and the Graphic proprietary has taken advantage of this circumstance to put a reprint of this great work upon the market at a considerable reduction upon the price, which heretofore ranged from £2 10s to £3 per volume. The republication of the Dictionary in this way is not in any sense an act of ‘piracy.’ but is legitimate ir.

every way. Those who had any proprietary right to the work, save as a mere matter of business, are long since dead, so that nc injury is done to the authors by reproducing it. We have arranged for a large number of copies, and propose to give it as A PREMIUM IN CONNECTION WITH THE ‘GRAPHIC. £t is, of course, impossible to make an actual donation of so large ind valuable a book, and it will be issued upon the following Each new subscriber to the Graphic for one year, or each old subscriber renewing for the year, will be given the DICTIONARY AND THE N.Z. GRAPHIC ’ TOGETHER FOR 35/ This will enable any person wishing the Dictionary to get it with -he N.Z. Graphic for one year for one-half the price heretofore currently charged for the Dictionary alone. The price is marvelously low. The book is an exact reproduction in size and general

form of the standard Webster’s Dictionary, with only this differ ence, that the reprint is printed upon a lighter paper. The letterpress is an exact foe simile of the Dictionary, which is familiar to all. Subscriptions will be received, either through the agents of the paper or direct from this office. Anybody caring to take advantage of this offer may do so by addressing us and enclosing the subscription price, 365, for the book and paper. THIS IS THE BIST -No THE APPEMDIX of this other reprint edition of Web- e<ution conUil > B «““ ch val “' able matter that is not in the star’s Dictionary is so com- the other cheap editions, as plctc as is this one. Not only follows: The pronunciation does it contain all the words of th ° European Languages, Quotations, that Noah Webster ever Phrases, etc., from Latin, defined, but 10.000 additional French, Italian and Spanish new words have been added Abbreviations, seven pages of Mercantile and Legal terms, etc. XT AX.SO COWTAXYO a table of 15,000 synonyms, 11 page of a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Scripture proper names, 21 pages of a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Greek and Latin proper names, 47 pages of a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names, and 1,500 Pictorial Illustrations: Flags of All Nat ons—Bs Flags.

THIS GREAT EDUCATOR AND STANDARD WORK That we now reprint and offer to you at this wonderfully low price ought to be in every home in this colony. IT IS STRONGLY AND HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL LIBRARY LEATHER AND HALF RUSSIA, CONTAINING OVER 150,000 WORDS, AN APPENDIX OF OVER_IQ,OOO NEW WORDS AND I,SCO_PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS. Everybody can have a Dictionary now that the monopoly prices no longer prevail. Every business man should have one; every school child should be provided with one for home studies. The excessively low price of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is the wonder of all. It will probably be years before such another opportunity occurs. It is the cheapest book ever offered to the public at the following price: