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Contrary to popular belief, the author of the first English dictionary is not Samuel Johnson, but Robert Cawdrey, who published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604 - nearly 150 years before Johnson's dictionary.Product Identifiers
PublisherBodleian Library
ISBN-101851243852
ISBN-139781851243853
eBay Product ID (ePID)57193939
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Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFirst English Dictionary 1604 : Robert Cawdrey's a Table Alphabeticall
Publication Year2007
SubjectDictionaries, Europe / Great Britain / General, Linguistics / General
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaRéférence, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorRobert Cawdrey
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
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Reviews"Apart from its importance to the history of lexicography, this pioneering reference work remains interesting as an early effort to strike a balance between innovation and accessibility in language use."Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, "Wordsmiths, your ship has come in: A new book-well, sort of new-should keep you pleasantly perusing till dawn. . . . Few books are as delightful as this compendium, thought to be the first alphabetical dictionary."-Julia Keller,Chicago Tribune , "This book is back in print after vanishing for almost four centuries. It is a dictionary, but you won't want to look anything up in it. Instead, you will want to read it straight through, like an adventure tale-where the hero is our own young language, as it begins to pull itself up by the bootstraps. One word after another amuses you, bewilders you, and astonishes you. Best of all, the dictionary comes with another story behind the scenes, elegantly revealed for us by John Simpson: how a defrocked priest, living in remote rural England, continually in trouble with church authorities, came to devote himself to the creation of this strange and wonderful book."-James Gleick, author of Issac Newton and Chaos , "The Bodleian Library has done wordsmiths and scholars of the language a great service by faithfully reprinting the text, with a lengthy and useful introduction by John Simpon, chief editor of "The Oxford English Dictionary," This slim little tome should once again find a place in all the libraries of the realm, even if now its significance is more historical than referential.", It is magicke, inchaunting, and makyth me to maffle and bleate. A fulgent thing, deserving of great claritude., Apart from its importance to the history of lexicography, this pioneering reference work remains interesting as an early effort to strike a balance between innovation and accessibility in language use., Every time you look up a word in an English dictionary, you unwittingly pay homage to an unsung, half-forgotten Rutland schoolmaster who in 1604 came up with the brilliant idea of an alphabetical dictionary. Previously, no-one had imagined what today seems so blindingly obvious, that a dictionary should run seamlessly, from A to Z. This brave little book is the first attempt to make a readable inventory of the most interesting English words four centuries ago. It is difficult to overemphasize its importance to the English language., "The Bodleian Library has done wordsmiths and scholars of the language a great service by faithfully reprinting the text, with a lengthy and useful introduction by John Simpon, chief editor ofThe Oxford English Dictionary. This slim little tome should once again find a place in all the libraries of the realm, even if now its significance is more historical than referential."--Bloomsbury Review , Cawdrey''s text, which has more than 2,500 words with brief and sometimes quirky definitions, is now available after being out of print for 350 years. . . . Enlightening and entertaining introduction., "Every time you look up a word in an English dictionary, you unwittingly pay homage to an unsung, half-forgotten Rutland schoolmaster who in 1604 came up with the brilliant idea of an alphabetical dictionary. Previously, no-one had imagined what today seems so blindingly obvious, that a dictionary should run seamlessly, from A to Z. This brave little book is the first attempt to make a readable inventory of the most interesting English words four centuries ago. It is difficult to overemphasize its importance to the English language."Simon Winchester, "It is magicke, inchaunting, and makyth me to maffle and bleate. A fulgent thing, deserving of great claritude."-Stephen Fry"Previously, no-one had imagined what today seems so blindingly obvious, that a dictionary should run seamlessly, from A-Z ... It is difficult to overemphasize its importance to the English language."-Simon Winchester"This is a gnarled, rude, fierce old dictionary and utterly without 'calliditie' ('craftiness, or deceit'). It may not provide much 'clavicorde' ('mirth') and it certainly 'maffles' ('stammers'), but it also 'inchaunts' ('bewitches')."-New York Sun"Wordsmiths, your ship has come in: A new book-well, sort of new-should keep you pleasantly perusing till dawn. . . . Few books are as delightful as this compendium, thought to be the first alphabetical dictionary."-Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune, "It is magicke, inchaunting, and makyth me to maffle and bleate. A fulgent thing, deserving of great claritude."--Stephen Fry, Quaint, but pioneering, work. . . . Mr. Simpson, who is chief editor of 'The Oxford English Dictionary,' provides a wonderful introduction to this curious compiliation, together with a facsimile of the original title page. . . . This is a gnarled, rude, fierce old dictionary and utterly without 'calliditie' ('craftiness, or deceit'). It may not provide much 'clavicorde' ('mirth') and it certainly 'maffles' ('stammers'), but it also 'inchaunts' ('bewitches'). It shows the raw stuff out of which Shakespeare and Cawdrey's other contemporaries of genius fashioned their more sublime flights. In his Puritan soul, Cawdrey would have considered these mere 'blatterings' ('vaine babblings'), but his rough alphabet formed the bedrock on which they rode., "The Bodleian Library has done wordsmiths and scholars of the language a great service by faithfully reprinting the text, with a lengthy and useful introduction by John Simpon, chief editor of The Oxford English Dictionary. This slim little tome should once again find a place in all the libraries of the realm, even if now its significance is more historical than referential."-Michael G. Cornelius, Bloomsbury Review, "Apart from its importance to the history of lexicography, this pioneering reference work remains interesting as an early effort to strike a balance between innovation and accessibility in language use."-Scott McLemee,Inside Higher Ed , The Bodleian Library has done wordsmiths and scholars of the language a great service by faithfully reprinting the text, with a lengthy and useful introduction by John Simpon, chief editor of The Oxford English Dictionary . This slim little tome should once again find a place in all the libraries of the realm, even if now its significance is more historical than referential., "Every time you look up a word in an English dictionary, you unwittingly pay homage to an unsung, half-forgotten Rutland schoolmaster who in 1604 came up with the brilliant idea of an alphabetical dictionary. Previously, no-one had imagined what today seems so blindingly obvious, that a dictionary should run seamlessly, from A to Z. This brave little book is the first attempt to make a readable inventory of the most interesting English words four centuries ago. It is difficult to overemphasize its importance to the English language."--Simon Winchester, "Quaint, but pioneering, work. . . . Mr. Simpson, who is chief editor of ''The Oxford English Dictionary,'' provides a wonderful introduction to this curious compiliation, together with a facsimile of the original title page. . . . This is a gnarled, rude, fierce old dictionary and utterly without ''calliditie'' (''craftiness, or deceit''). It may not provide much ''clavicorde'' (''mirth'') and it certainly ''maffles'' (''stammers''), but it also ''inchaunts'' (''bewitches''). It shows the raw stuff out of which Shakespeare and Cawdrey''s other contemporaries of genius fashioned their more sublime flights. In his Puritan soul, Cawdrey would have considered these mere ''blatterings'' (''vaine babblings''), but his rough alphabet formed the bedrock on which they rode." New York Sun, Wordsmiths, your ship has come in: A new book-well, sort of new-should keep you pleasantly perusing till dawn. . . . Few books are as delightful as this compendium, thought to be the first alphabetical dictionary., "Cawdrey''s text, which has more than 2,500 words with brief and sometimes quirky definitions, is now available after being out of print for 350 years. . . . Enlightening and entertaining introduction."-- Philadelphia Inquirer, Quaint, but pioneering, work. . . . Mr. Simpson, who is chief editor of ''The Oxford English Dictionary, '' provides a wonderful introduction to this curious compiliation, together with a facsimile of the original title page. . . . This is a gnarled, rude, fierce old dictionary and utterly without ''calliditie'' (''craftiness, or deceit''). It may not provide much ''clavicorde'' (''mirth'') and it certainly ''maffles'' (''stammers''), but it also ''inchaunts'' (''bewitches''). It shows the raw stuff out of which Shakespeare and Cawdrey''s other contemporaries of genius fashioned their more sublime flights. In his Puritan soul, Cawdrey would have considered these mere ''blatterings'' (''vaine babblings''), but his rough alphabet formed the bedrock on which they rode., Wordsmiths, your ship has come in: A new book--well, sort of new--should keep you pleasantly perusing till dawn. . . . Few books are as delightful as this compendium, thought to be the first alphabetical dictionary., "This book is back in print after vanishing for almost four centuries. It is a dictionary, but you won't want to look anything up in it. Instead, you will want to read it straight through, like an adventure tale-where the hero is our own young language, as it begins to pull itself up by the bootstraps. One word after another amuses you, bewilders you, and astonishes you. Best of all, the dictionary comes with another story behind the scenes, elegantly revealed for us by John Simpson: how a defrocked priest, living in remote rural England, continually in trouble with church authorities, came to devote himself to the creation of this strange and wonderful book."-James Gleick, author of Issac Newton and Chaos, "The Bodleian Library has done wordsmiths and scholars of the language a great service by faithfully reprinting the text, with a lengthy and useful introduction by John Simpon, chief editor of The Oxford English Dictionary . This slim little tome should once again find a place in all the libraries of the realm, even if now its significance is more historical than referential."Michael G. Cornelius, Bloomsbury Review, "This book is back in print after vanishing for almost four centuries. It is a dictionary, but you won''t want to look anything up in it. Instead, you will want to read it straight through, like an adventure talewhere the hero is our own young language, as it begins to pull itself up by the bootstraps. One word after another amuses you, bewilders you, and astonishes you. Best of all, the dictionary comes with another story behind the scenes, elegantly revealed for us by John Simpson: how a defrocked priest, living in remote rural England, continually in trouble with church authorities, came to devote himself to the creation of this strange and wonderful book."James Gleick, author of Issac Newton and Chaos, "Wordsmiths, your ship has come in: A new bookwell, sort of newshould keep you pleasantly perusing till dawn. . . . Few books are as delightful as this compendium, thought to be the first alphabetical dictionary."Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune, "It is magicke, inchaunting, and makyth me to maffle and bleate. A fulgent thing, deserving of great claritude."Stephen Fry, "This book is back in print after vanishing for almost four centuries. It is a dictionary, but you won''t want to look anything up in it. Instead, you will want to read it straight through, like an adventure tale--where the hero is our own young language, as it begins to pull itself up by the bootstraps. One word after another amuses you, bewilders you, and astonishes you. Best of all, the dictionary comes with another story behind the scenes, elegantly revealed for us by John Simpson: how a defrocked priest, living in remote rural England, continually in trouble with church authorities, came to devote himself to the creation of this strange and wonderful book."--James Gleick, author of "Issac Newton "and "Chaos", Cawdrey's text, which has more than 2,500 words with brief and sometimes quirky definitions, is now available after being out of print for 350 years. . . . Enlightening and entertaining introduction., "This book is back in print after vanishing for almost four centuries. It is a dictionary, but you won't want to look anything up in it. Instead, you will want to read it straight through, like an adventure tale--where the hero is our own young language, as it begins to pull itself up by the bootstraps. One word after another amuses you, bewilders you, and astonishes you. Best of all, the dictionary comes with another story behind the scenes, elegantly revealed for us by John Simpson: how a defrocked priest, living in remote rural England, continually in trouble with church authorities, came to devote himself to the creation of this strange and wonderful book."--James Gleick, author of Issac Newton and Chaos
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