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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries They Made
by Green, Jonathon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0224040103
- ISBN 13
- 9780224040105
- Seller
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About This Item
1996 HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.*Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Jonathan Cape* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £25.00, some minor shelf wear to top edge with one small (1/4?) tear to back top edge. NEAR FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright. No Inscriptions or annotations, very slight paper colouration, NEAR FINE* Illustrations: B/W photos.* Pages: 380 pp. text. xliii pp. Notes, Bibliography & Index.* Review :- The title of this engaging history of lexicography is taken from Samuel Johnson's preface to The Dictionary of English Language of 1755 - in which the great man moans at the endless task lexicography turned out to be, given that when he started he was dreamily anticipating 'the hours which I should revel away in feasts of literature'. Green, himself a dictionary-maker, charts the history of his craft from pre-Babylonian Sumeria to the present day. A fat book, packed with interest for anyone fascinated with the process by which language is captured. (Kirkus UK)
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 576
- Title
- Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries They Made
- Author
- Green, Jonathon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224040103
- ISBN 13
- 9780224040105
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London 400
- Date Published
- 1996-03-07
- Size
- , [8]p. of plates : ill., facsim
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