Studies in lexicography

by Robert Burchfield, ed

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First edition

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 2 , 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy in the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED to the Australian National Dictionary, brought together by the editor of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary 1972-1986 . Though held in many public

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