Defining the world
Subtitle: the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
By: Henry Hitchings
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780374113025
Subjects: Encyclopédies et dictionnaires; Lexikographie; History and criticism; Anglais (Langue); Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais; Lexicographie; Histoire; English language; Wörterbuch; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Histoire et critique; Lexicography; Anglais (langue); History
Work titles: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
Description: Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.
Notes: "Originally published in 2005 by John Murray (Publishers) ... as Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: the extraordinary story of the book that defined the world"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Adventurous; title: Amulet; title: Apple; title: Bookworm; title: Commoner - Darkling; title: To decamp; title: To dissipate; title: English; title: Entrance; title: Factotum; title: To gather; title: Higgledy-piggledy; title: Lexicographer; title: Library; title: Melancholy; title: Microscope; title: Network; title: Nicety; title: To note; title: Opinionist; title: Opulence; title: Pastern; title: Patron; title: Philology; title: Pleasureful; title: To preface; title: Publication; title: Reception; title: Triumphant; title: Ubiquity; title: Variety; title: Weightiness; title: X; title: Zootomy.