Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary Paperback - 2001
by K. M. Elisabeth Murray
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- Paperback
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary". 26 illustrations.
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- Title Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
- Author K. M. Elisabeth Murray
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
- Date 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0300089198I4N00
- ISBN 9780300089196 / 0300089198
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 423.092
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This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a lexicographer greater by far than Dr. Johnson. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.