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The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall
Robert Cawdrey
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Paperback. Contrary to popular belief, the author of the first English dictionary is not Samuel Johnson, but Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604 - nearly 150 years before Johnson's dictionary. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; CBD; CBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 182.
Here is a real treat for lovers of English - the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604. Written for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen or any other unskilfull persons, this was not a book for scholars but was aimed squarely at the non-fiction best-seller list of its day. It is a treasure-house of meaning, bristling with arresting and eminently quotable definitions. For example geometrie is the `art of ... Read more
Here is a real treat for lovers of English - the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604. Written for the benefit of Ladies, Gentlewomen or any other unskilfull persons, this was not a book for scholars but was aimed squarely at the non-fiction best-seller list of its day. It is a treasure-house of meaning, bristling with arresting and eminently quotable definitions. For example geometrie is the `art of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
182g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243884
SKU
V9781851243884
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About Robert Cawdrey
John Simpson is formerly Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's largest dictionary programme. He edited (with Edmund Weiner) the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published to great acclaim in 1989. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford and of the Philological Society (where the idea of the Dictionary was first mooted in ... Read more
Reviews for The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall
It is magicke, inchaunting, and makyth me to maffle and bleate. A fulgent thing, deserving of great claritude. -Stephen Fry Previously, no-one had imagined what today seems so blindingly obvious, that a dictionary should run seamlessly, from A-Z ... It is difficult to overemphasize its importance to the English language. -Simon Winchester ... Read more