Review published In:
Historiographia LinguisticaVol. 2:2 (1975) ► pp.233–238
Book review
A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800: A Corrected Reprint of Volumes I–X. By R. C. Alston
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References
Alston, R(obin) C.
1965 A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800. Vol. I1: English Grammars Written in English and English Grammars Written in Latin by Native Speakers. Leeds: E. J. Arnold & Son (for the author).
1966a A Bibliography of the English Language …. Vol. V1: The English Dictionary. Ibid.
1966b A Bibliography of the English Language …. Vol. VIII1: Treatises on Short-hand. Ibid.
1967 A Bibliography of the English Language …. Vol. IV1: Spelling Books. Bradford: E. Cummins (for the author).
Anon
1974a “The Evolution of English”. [Review of English Linguistics 1500–1800, microfiche ed. Ilkley, Yorkshire: Scolar Press 1974] Times Literary Supplement 3 May 1974, pp. 479–80. (See also Alston’s letter to the Editor of TLS written in reply to the review and published in the same journal on 24 May 1974, p. 559.)
1974b “For Grown-Up Grammarians”. [Review of R. C. Alston, A Bibliography of the English Language…, vols. I-X1. Ilkley: Janus Press 1974.] Times Literary Supplement 8 Nov. 1974, p. 1267.
Johnson, Samuel
(1709–84). 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations …. 21 vols. London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, etc. (Repr. in facs., New York: AMS Press 1967.)
Kennedy, Arthur G(arfield
1880–1954) 1927 A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language; from the beginning of printing to the end of 1922. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press. (Repr., New York: Hafner 1961.)