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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Title:
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Personal Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Edition:
[Large print edition].
Publication Information:
Thorndike, Me. : G.K. Hall, 1999, 1998b.
Physical Description:
308 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"G.K. Hall large print core series"--T.p. verso.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915-Friends and associates.
Title Subject:
New English dictionary on historical principles.
Subject Term:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.
Geographic Term:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.
Genre:
Large type books.
ISBN:
9780783885001
Format :
Book

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