Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers is written by Anne C. McDermott and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 135187022X (ISBN 10) and 9781351870221 (ISBN 13).

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.