Key Information
Reference code
K/PP132/2/2/2
Title
An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; and Forming a Basis of Comparison for the Use of Contributors to the New Dictionary of the Philological Society. Part I - A-D., 1861
Date(s)
- 1861 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 item
Scope and content
An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; and Forming a Basis of Comparison for the Use of Contributors to the New Dictionary of the Philological Society. Part I - A-D. (London: Emily Faithfull & Co, 1861). Publication listing the words beginning with the letters A to D for which definitions have been received. Originally owned by Herbert Coleridge first official editor of the dictionary. Extensively annotated with manuscript tables of additional words, mostly by Furnivall.