Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Reading Trench reading Richardson 1
5. Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins’s An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)? 23
6. “As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant” 57
7. Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century 95
8. “A hundred visions and revisions”: Malone’s annotations to Johnson’s Dictionary 115
9. The use of “mechanical reasoning”: John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719) 149
10. Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: ‘content marketing’ in the nineteenth century? 165
11. The “wants” of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury dictionaries* 187
12. Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind 211
13. Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734 237
14. “Weak Shrube or Underwood”: The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary 261
15. A “florid” preface about “a language that is very short, concise and sententious” 285
16. List of contributors 307
17. Index 311