In:The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 57] 1991
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 26 July 1991
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.57.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.57.toc
Table of contents
Introductory Materials
I. Introductionvii
II. A Chronological List of the Dictionaries with their Editions and Locationsxiii
III. Select Bibliographyci
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755
Forewordiii
Illustrationsvii
I. The Medieval and Renaissance Heritage of the English Dictionary1
II. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall (1604)13
III. John Bullokar's An English Expositor (1616)20
IV. Henry Cockeram's The English Dictionarie (1623)26
V. Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1656)37
VI. Edward Phillips' The New World of English Words (1658)48
VII. Elisha Coles's An English Dictionary (1676)58
VIII. Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689)64
IX. J.K.'s A New English Dictionary (1702)69
X. Cocker's English Dictionary (1704)76
XI. John Kersey's Revision of Edward Phillips' The New World of Words (1706)84
XII. Glossographia Anglicana Nova (1707)90
XIII. John Kersey's Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708)95
XIV. Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721)98
XV. Nathan Bailey's The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Volume II (1727)108
XVI. Nathan Bailey and Others, Dictionarium Britannicum (1730)117
XVII. Thomas Dyche and William Pardon's A New General English Dictionary (1735)126
XVIII. The Identical Dictionaries of 1735 (B.N. Defoe), 1737 (Anonymous), 1739 (J. Sparrow), and 1742 (James Manlove)139
XIX. Benjamin Martin's Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749)146
XX. A Pocket Dictionary (1753)164
XXI. [John Wesley's] The Complete English Dictionary (1753)172
XXII. The Scott-Bailey A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755) and Retrospect179
Appendices
I. Medieval and Renaissance Vocabularies and the English Dictionary197
II. The Development of Cant Lexicography in English, 1566-1785212
III. A Bibliography and Census of Dictionaries in American Libraries228
Notes242
Index289
