The Theory of English Lexicography 1530–1791
Tetsuro Hayashi
This book serves as a welcome addition to the better known English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by Starnes & Noyes (new edition published by Benjamins 1991). Whereas Starnes & Noyes describe the history of English lexicography as an evolutionary progress-by-accumulation process,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 18] 1978. xii, 168 pp.


