Erin McKean recently wrote an article for the Boston Globe about the new Pictorial Webster's, which features over 12,000 engravings set and printed by hand from the 1859 edition of the Merriam-Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language. Its a lovely book. If the cheapest edition weren't $2600, I'd want one for myself. Incidentally, Ms. McKean gave a delightfully geeky TED lecture about lexicography last year.
I'm tossing this entry into the Vickies and Eddies filter, since it may be of interest to steampunk enthusiasts.