Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The early Webster dictionaries are works of genius with superb erudition and literary quality. They contain copious usage notes and examples from great literature such as the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton. This particular version is not a facsimile of the original; it has been transcribed and edited. The transcription mostly preserves the information content of the original, but it introduces some deficiencies: - the visual layout is dense and cluttered and less aesthetic than a typical dictionary - the words being defined are all caps instead of bold, which makes it difficult to navigate, particularly for children - the transcription process has introduced significant omissions, probably accidental. For instance, all words starting with STRI and STRE are missing except for streak and striae; thus stretch, strict, stride, strike, string, and many other common words are missing. I discovered the stri/stre omission by chance and I have no way to judge the frequency or severity of other potential omissions. I would not buy this version again due to the aesthetics and the large number of missing words