Title: A history of Roget's thesaurus
Description: First published in 1852, 'Roget's Thesaurus' has come to be one of the most famous and widely used reference works in the world. This book exposes the conceptual framework behind the thesaurus and shows how it can be interpreted as a predecessor of linguistic semantics.
Subjects: Publishing, Lexicography, Thesauri, Semantics, English language, Synonyms and antonyms, English language, lexicography
People: Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869)