Hardly harmless drudgery : a 500-year pictorial history of the lexicographic geniuses, sciolists, plagiarists & obsessives who defined the English language /

An illustrated history of the dictionary and the many obsessed compilers, charlatans and geniuses, who made them. Dictionaries are repositories of erudition, monuments to linguistic authority and battlefields in cultural and political struggles. They are works of almost superhuman endurance, produce...

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