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 This appears to be the last of the various editions of Walker, and, on the basis of the additional words and a superficial examination, a properly revised edition.  The new words are inserted into the body of the text and not simply added on as with Smith.\\ This appears to be the last of the various editions of Walker, and, on the basis of the additional words and a superficial examination, a properly revised edition.  The new words are inserted into the body of the text and not simply added on as with Smith.\\
  
-Francis R. Sowerby was the stepson and subsequent partner of William Milner, a Halifax printer and publisher.  In 1861 their Walker was published, having been preceded in 1844 by Milner’s printing of the Davis Edition, repeated in 1845.  Whether this was the inspiration for Sowerby’s own edition remains to be seen.  There were further printings in each of the next five years, and a copy for 1867 may yet appear, but after that year no more of their books were dated.  Nor were any of these first six given an edition number.  Nevertheless some time after this a 9th Edition, ‘revised, corrected and modernised’, was published.  I would like to think that this was first published in 1869, and that I shall one day discover an undated non-9th Edition.  I have two copies of it in identical binding to that of the 1866 copy.\\+Francis R. Sowerby was the stepson and subsequent partner of William Milner, a Halifax printer and publisher.  In 1861 their Walker was published, having been preceded in 1844 by Milner’s printing of the Davis Edition, repeated in 1845.  Whether this was the inspiration for Sowerby’s own edition remains to be seen.  There were further printings in each of the next five years, and a copy for 1867 may yet appear, but after that year no more of their books were dated.  Nor were any of these first six given an edition number.  Nevertheless some time after this a 9th Edition, ‘revised, corrected and modernised’, was published.  I would like to think that this was first published in 1869, and that I shall one day discover an undated non-9th Edition *.  I have two copies of it in identical binding to that of the 1866 copy.\\
  
 There are small differences to be seen between the early editions but all the 9th Editions seem to be identical, having stopped modernising.  In 1882 the firm changed from Milner and Sowerby to Milner and Co., but there are no discernable differences except to the bindings between early and later copies, and Sowerby himself died in 1885, presumably putting a stop to any further revision.\\ There are small differences to be seen between the early editions but all the 9th Editions seem to be identical, having stopped modernising.  In 1882 the firm changed from Milner and Sowerby to Milner and Co., but there are no discernable differences except to the bindings between early and later copies, and Sowerby himself died in 1885, presumably putting a stop to any further revision.\\
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 This, then, would appear to be the end of Walker’s Dictionary.  It may have lived on in the guise of Nuttall’s Dictionary, and as Walker it was still being advertised on fly-leaves and end papers into the 1920s.  Whether you could actually buy it, or whether firms were just using up pre-printed sheets is another matter.\\ This, then, would appear to be the end of Walker’s Dictionary.  It may have lived on in the guise of Nuttall’s Dictionary, and as Walker it was still being advertised on fly-leaves and end papers into the 1920s.  Whether you could actually buy it, or whether firms were just using up pre-printed sheets is another matter.\\
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 +* I have now found an edition that has no date and no claim to be the 9th-Edition.  However, it is published by Milner and Co. of Paternoster Row, London, and has no mention of Francis Sowerby on the title page either.  These facts would suggest that it was published after 1882 and probably after 1885, but quite how it fits with the other editions will take some investigation.\\
  
  
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