The English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755 / De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes ; new edition with an introduction and a selected bibliography by Gabriele Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starnes, DeWitt T. (DeWitt Talmage), 1888-1967.

Contributor:

Noyes, Gertrude E. (Gertrude Elizabeth), 1905-

Stein, Gabriele.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ; Series III, v. 57.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Lexicography--History--17th century.

English language.

English language--Lexicography--History--18th century.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Lexicography.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

English language--18th century--Lexicography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history.

Contents:

THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY FROM CAWDREY TO JOHNSON 1604-1755; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; I. INTRODUCTION; II. A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE DICTIONARIES WITH THEIR EDITIONS AND LOCATIONS; III. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE English Dictionary FROM CAWDREY TO JOHNSON 1604-1755; FOREWORD; Illustrations; Chapter I. THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE HERITAGE OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY; Chapter II. ROBERT CAWDREY'S A Table Alphabetical (1604); Chapter III. JOHN BULLOKAR'S An English Expositor (1616); Chapter IV. HENRY COCKERAM'S The English Dictionarie (1623)

Chapter V. THOMAS BLOUNT'S Glossographia (1656)Chapter VI. EDWARD PHILLIPS' The New World of English Words (1658); Chapter VII. ELISHA COLES'S An English Dictionary (1676); Chapter VIII. Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689); Chapter IX. J. K.'S A New English Dictionary (1702); Chapter X. Cocker's English Dictionary (1704); Chapter XI. JOHN KERSEY'S REVISION OF EDWARD PHILLIPS'The New World of Words (1706); Chapter XII. Glossographia Anglicana Nova (1707); Chapter XIII. JOHN KERSEY'S Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708)

Chapter XIV. NATHAN BAILEY'S An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721) Chapter XV. NATHAN BAILEY'S The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,VOLUME II (1727); Chapter XVI. NATHAN BAILEY AND OTHERS, Dictionarium Britannicum (1730); Chapter XVII. THOMAS DYCHE AND WILLIAM PARDON'SA New General English Dictionary (1735); Chapter XVIII. THE IDENTICAL DICTIONARIES OF 1735 (B. N. DEFOE)1737 (ANONYMOUS), 1739 (J. SPARROW)AND I 741 (JAMES MANLOVE; Chapter XIX. BENJAMIN MARTIN'S Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749); Chapter XX. A Pocket Dictionary (1753)

Chapter XXI. [JOHN WESLEY'S] The Complete English Dictionary (1753) Chapter XXII. THE SCOTT-BAILEY A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755) AND RETROSPECT; Appendix I. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE VOCABULARIES AND THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY; Appendix II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANT LEXICOGRAPHY IN ENGLAND, 1566-1785; Appendix III. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CENSUS OF DICTIONARIES IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES; Notes; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31337-5

9786613313379

90-272-7772-9

OCLC:

756484587