Condition Continued: On a small number of pages the foxing is moderate. I would estimate there are only about a dozen edge tears. I saw one instance of a loss of paper off an edge. I can't find it now, it probably removed a little bit of the print. There are also very tiny corner losses in a small number of instances. It looks like Nathan Scholfield lightly penciled his name off the top edge of page 73 with 'Norwich'. And the name 'Henry' (no doubt Henry Blanchard) is penned in two places on page 13. Either Henry, Nathan or Socrates sporadically made little pencil lines next to certain words in the dictionary. This is most often the case in earlier pages of the dictionary. Beside Socrates name on the rear inside cover there are a few little penned jags. That's about it for writing. There aren't any markings or attachments.

Unknow publisher and place of publication. Lot of uncertainty comes with this description. The book opens up on a page written by William Cranch, Judge of the Supreme Court in the District Of Columbia in which he lists a number of personages commending the value of the dictionary. I would assume that there is missing a page or two prior to this page. The verso of this page states at the top: 'The following testimonial is subscribed by the members of Congress whose names are annexed.' Under that paragraph is printed 'Washington, Feb. 1831'. That's followed by a Preface at the bottom of which is printed 'New Haven, Dec. 1829.' From that I am assuming that the dictionary was published in 1831. The next page is titled Directions (actually two pages). And then we are at the first page under the heading 'A Dictionary of The English Language'. The book has 530 pages. The front inside cover has two old, but undated, signatures. One of them is repeated off the top edge of the first page. That name is Henry Blanchard or possibly Henry T. Blanchard. There's also a signature of a 'Mr. Nathan Scholfield. He wrote a book in 1845 titled Higher Geometry And Trigonometry: Being The Third Part Of A Series On Elementary And Higher Geometry, Trigonometry, And Mensuration. The University Of Virginia references a Henry T. Blanchard's Civil War letters. He appears to have lived from 1841 to 1864. On the rear inside cover is the name, in raised letters, of a Socrates Scholfield. I just found the following on the Internet: 'Nathan Scholfield, and his son Socrates, were early settlers of Umpqua City. They came from Norwich, Connecticut.  This is the family that Scholfield Creek on the Umpqua River is named for. Nathan Scholfield did a few surveys in the Umpqua and Siuslaw region, and the following is a letter he wrote to the Umpqua Weekly Gazette, published May 19, 1854.'  Nathan's lifespan: 1806-1858. 

From AI: Nathan Scholfield : 'A versatile engineer and mathematician who wrote a three-volume work on advanced geometry and trigonometry (1845) and patented a water wheel governor.

His son, Socrates Scholfield (1831-1914), became a notable mechanical engineer and author in his own right, known for works such as The Doctrine of Mechanical Determinism.'