Book reviewReview of Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries. . New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv + 496 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-883228-7 £ 90,00
Publication history
Table of contents
This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500–1800, which aims to present the first complete and coherent history of the lexicography “made or read by speakers of English or Scots, anywhere in the world”, including dictionaries, wordlists and glossaries of any size, “in manuscript and in print; monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot; general and specialized” (p. 3). John Considine’s broad view approach intends to overcome the compartmentalisation of the subject in existing scholarship and thus restore “the lively complexity of the lexicographical ecosystem of the English-speaking lands” (404).
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