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As is true for the editors of many other works, determining authorial revisions and establishing the texts were two of the principal duties we faced as editors of the preliminaries to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language—chiefly the Preface, the History of the English Language, and the Grammar of the English Tongue. Fortunately, early in our research we learned that our tasks had been notably aided by the findings of previous investigators, specifically, W. R. Keast (in his "The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language: Johnson's Revision and the Establishment of the Text"), Arthur Sherbo (in his "1773: The Year of Revision"), and Daisuke Nagashima (in his Johnson the Philologist).[1]
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