Historical Dictionaries in their Paratextual Context

Roderick McConchie, Jukka Tyrkkö

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783110572964
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills

Both dictionary and paratext research have emerged recently as widely-recognised research areas of intrinsic interest. This collection represents an attempt to place dictionaries within the paratextual context for the first time. This volume covers paratextual concerns, including dictionary production and use, questions concerning compilers, publishers, patrons and subscribers, and their cultural embedding generally. This book raises questions such as who compiled dictionaries and what cultural, linguistic and scientific notions drove this process. What influence did the professional interests, life experience, and social connexions of the lexicographer have? Who published dictionaries and why, and what do the forematter, backmatter, and supplements tell us? Lexicographers edited, adapted and improved earlier works, leaving copies with marginalia which illuminate working methods. Individual copies offer a history of ownership through marginalia, signatures, dates, places, and library stamps. Further questions concern how dictionaries were sold, who patronised them, subscribed to them, and how they came to various libraries.

Index

• abbreviations
• – in supplements 1, 2
• academic language 1
• academy dictionaries 1
• Adams, Thomas 1
• Addison, Joseph 1
• Age of Liberty in Sweden 1
• Alexander, Caleb
• – Columbian dictionary 1
• – learned men 1
• – mythology 1
• Allestry, James 1, 2, 3f., 4
• Alston, R. C. 1
• Alström, Jonas 1, 2, 3
• Alt, Jost Heinrich 1
• annotators VII
• Anon. (1755) Spelling dictionary of the English language 1
• Anon. (1759), New English dictionary 1, 2
• Anon. (1785), General and complete dictionary 1, 2
• – place-names and markets 1f.
• Anon. (1794), Dictionary of the English language
• – mythology 1
• – place-names and markets 1
• Anon. (1796), Pronouncing dictionary
• – place-names and markets 1
• Anon. (1796), Pronouncing dictionary 1
• anthropotext 1
• appendices 1f., 2, 3f., 4, 5
• authorial involvement 1
• – autobiographical 1, 2f.
• – personal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• – scholarly 1, 2
• Ayloff, Joseph 1f.
• Babel and the confusion of tongues 1
• Bacon, Francis 1
• Bailey, Nathan 1
• – Dictionarium Britannicum 1, 2, 3, 4
• – supplements 1
• Barclay, James
• – government of England 1
• – ancient and modern history 1
• – Complete and universal English dictionary 1
• – government of England 1
• Baret, John Alvearie 1, 2
• Barlow, F. Complete English dictionary 1
• Barnaud, Nicolas 1
• Beaumont, Charles 1
• Beaumont, Joseph 1
• Bellman, Jacob Martin 1
• Benjamin Martin 1
• Bentick, John
• – place-names and markets 1
• – Spelling and explanatory dictionary 1
• Biehusen, Conrad 1
• Bishop, Richard 1
• Blackstone, Sir William 1f.
• Blancard, Stephen 1, 2, 3
• – dictionary 1708 and 1726 1
• Blount, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• book
• – human context 1
• – illustration 1
• – prefatory matter 1
• book trade
• – women in 1
• books
• – funding 1
• – physicality of 1
• booksellers 1, 2
• bookstamp, heraldic 1
• Boswell, James 1
• Boswell, James, the younger 1, 2, 3
• botany 1
• Bouhours, Dominique 1, 2
• Boyer, Abel 1
• Bradley, Henry 1, 2, 3, 4
• Brander, Karl 1, 2
• Bristed, Charles Astor 1
• British Empire 1, 2
• British synonymy See Piozzi, Hester
• Brome, Henry 1
• Buffier, Claude 1f.
• Bullokar, John 1
• Bullokar, William 1
• Burke, Edmund 1, 2
• Busk, Jacob 1
• Butler, Charles 1, 2
• Bynneman, Henry 1
• Calepine 1
• Cambridge 1, 2f., 3
• – Trinity College 1
• Cambridge Apostles 1
• Cambridge Platonists 1
• Camden, William 1, 2f.
• Carnegie, Andrew 1
• Carteret, John 1
• Carteret, the Hon. Edward 1
• catechizing 1, 2
• Cavendish, Margaret 1, 2, 3
• Cawdrey, Robert 1, 2, 3ff., 4, 5, 6, 7
• Cecil, Elizabeth 1, 2
• Cecil, Robert 1
• Chambers, Ephraim 1
• – Cyclopaedia 1, 2, 3, 4
• Chesterfield, Lord 1
• children’s books 1
• children’s dictionaries 1
• chorography 1, 2
• – in supplements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Cocker’s dictionary 1, 2
• – coins 1
• – supplement 1, 2
• Cockeram, Henry 1, 2, 3, 4f.
• Cockeram, Henry English dictionarie 1
• Cocker’s dictionary
• – lexicographic and encyclopaedic information 1
• Coke, Thomas 1
• Coleridge, Herbert 1
• Coles, Elisha 1, 2, 3, 4
• collections 1
• collectors 1
• College of Physicians 1
• Collet, Mary 1
• colloquial language 1
• commerce 1, 2, 3
• commonplace books 1f.
• Company of Barber-Surgeons 1
• conduct books 1, 2
• consular service 1
• Cooper, Thomas 1
• – Bibliotheca Eliotæ 1
• – in Oxford 1
• – Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae 1
• copious language 1
• Cotgrave, Randle 1, 2
• – Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1
• Cotton, Charles 1, 2
• Cowell, John 1f.
• Craigie, William 1
• Creswick, Sam...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Reading Trench reading Richardson
• Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins’s An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)?
• “As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant”
• Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century
• “A hundred visions and revisions”: Malone’s annotations to Johnson’s Dictionary
• The use of “mechanical reasoning”: John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719)
• Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: ‘content marketing’ in the nineteenth century?
• The “wants” of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century dictionaries
• Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind
• Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734
• “Weak Shrube or Underwood”: The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary
• A “florid” preface about “a language that is very short, concise and sententious”
• List of contributors
• Index