The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 57] 1991. cxii, xxii, 299 pp.
