Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editorial Method
List of Abbreviations
William Clark
A Dictionarie in English and Latine for Children, and Yong Beginners (1602)
Robert Cawdrey
A Table Alphabeticall, 2nd ed. (1609)
[I. B.] John Bullokar
An English Expositor: Teaching the Interpretation of the Hardest Words Vsed in Our Language (1616)
Henry Cockeram
The English Dictionarie: Or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words (1623)
Edmund Coote
The English Schoole-Master (1627)
Thomas Blount
Glossographia: Or a Dictionary (1656)
Edward Phillips
The New World of English Words: Or, a General Dictionary (1658)
John Ray
A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used (1674)
Elisha Coles
An English Dictionary (1676)
Anonymous
Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689)
Abel Boyer
The Royal Dictionary (1699)
[J. K.] John Kersey
A New English Dictionary (1702)
John Kersey
A New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary, 6th ed., rev. by John Kersey (1706)
Anonymous
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, a Dictionary (1707)
John Kersey [Philobibl.]
Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708)
Nathan Bailey
An Universal Etymological Dictionary (1721)
Thomas Dyche
The Spelling Dictionary (1725)
B. N. [Benjamin Norton] Defoe
A Compleat Dictionary (1735)
Nathan Bailey
Dictionarium Britannicum, 2nd ed. (1736)
Thomas Dyche and William Pardon
A New General English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1737)
Samuel Johnson
The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747)
Benjamin Martin
Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New English Dictionary (1749)
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Joseph Nicol Scott
A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755)
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language . . . Abstracted (1756)
James Buchanan
Linguæ Britannicæ Vera Pronunciato: Or, A New English Dictionary (1757)
William Johnston
A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary (1764)
John Trusler
The Difference between Words, Esteemed Synonymous, in the English Language (1766)
William Kenrick
A New Dictionary of the English Language: Containing, Not Only the Explanation of Words . . . but Likewise, Their Orthoepia or Pronunciation (1773)
James Barclay
A Complete and Universal English Dictionary on a New Plan (1774)
John Ash
The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1775)
William Perry
The Royal Standard English Dictionary (1775)
John Walker
A Dictionary of the English Language (1775)
Thomas Sheridan
A General Dictionary of the English Language (1780)
Francis Grose
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785)
John Walker
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791)
Hester Lynch Piozzi
British Synonymy (1794)
Noah Webster
A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806)
Noah Webster
An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
Dictionaries with Their Complete Titles
Bibliography
Index