Show noah webster s beat seller in noah webster published A grammatical institute of the english language it was written in three parts A spelling book a grammar and a reader observes a writer in cosmopolitan magazine Webs webster terp royalty though 1 less than one cent a volume still must have been pretty handsome for the book was the first of the american best sellers before the beginning of the civil war it was selling at tile the rate of more than a million copies a year webster began work on his famous dictionary in 1807 it wits was published in 1828 1928 and contained words and about definitions that had not appeared in any other dictionary |