Jack Lynch has a collection of texts from Samuel Johnson. Of interests to me are:
A Plan of an English Dictionary
Preface to the Dictionary
Crystal (Cambridge Encyc of English, p. 74) mentioned that Johnson began with a prescriptive vision of the dictionary (in the Plan) but ended with a descriptive approach (Preface).
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