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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

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Title:
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Author:
Winchester, Simon.
Preferred Call Number:
423.092 MURRAY 2005
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1998]
Subject:
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

English language -- Lexicography.

English language -- Etymology.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography.

Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates.

Minor, William Chester.

Oxford English dictionary.

New English dictionary on historical principles.
Physical Description:
xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
General Note:
Some copies: c2005.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
ISBN:
9780060175962

9780060839789
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