(New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848).

FIRST EDITION. Bartlett was one of the founders of the Providence Athenaeum, and was elected its first treasurer. He was also elected to membership in the Rhode Island Historical Society. The following year he was ordering books for the newly founded Providence Franklin Society, an early lyceum.   Over the course of his life he became involved with a number of other organizations including the New England Historic Genealogical Society,  and being elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1856.
Bartlett moved to New York City in 1836 and in 1840 he and his friend Charles Welford started the bookselling and publishing firm of Bartlett and Welford which was located in the Astor House hotel on the west side of Broadway between Vesey and Barclay streets. The firm, which was known for its large stock of foreign books, issued five catalogs between 1840 and 1848. While in New York, he became friends with a number of leading intellectuals, including the ethnologist and public servant Albert Gallatin. In 1842, he helped Gallatin found the American Ethnological Society   Bartlett later served as the Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the organization.
Bartlett is known in the field of lexicography for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneering work that, although supplanted by later dialect studies, is still of value to students of language and remains a valuable contribution to the subject. Later editions were published in 1859, 1860, and 1877. The first edition was translated into Dutch and published in 1854. The third edition of 1860 was translated into German and published in 1866. Item #34522

First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, blocked in blind on the covers and spine nd lettered in gilt. xxvii, [1], 412 pp; A very good copy, the binding tight and strong, the hinges fine, some light rubbing and a small chip to the cloth at the head of the spine, and a very minimal amount from shelving at the foot.