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Chasing the sun : dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made / Jonathon Green

by Jonathon Green

This scholarly history of lexicography traces the development of dictionaries and the lives of the word collectors behind them. It examines the role of the lexicographer as an influential arbiter of language throughout history.

Accession 21440 ISBN 0805034668 Publisher Henry Holt & Co.
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