123 pp. CONTENTS: The English Vocabulary; Dictionaries Before 1600; From Cawdrey to Johnson; The Nineteenth Century; Special Types of Dictionaries; The Historical Principle in Lexicography; Review of Lexicographic Methods; Chief Features of Some Modern Dictionaries; Appendix A (Dates of Parts of the O.E.D.); Appendix B (Less Well-known American Works Cited in O.E.D.); Index.
