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Werner Hüllen.
English Dictionaries, 800-1700: The Topical Tradition.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006 (previously issued in hardback, 1999).
Series: Oxford Linguistics.
ISBN 0199291047;
ISBN-13: 9780199291045.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Biddles, King’s Lynn.
Size: 146×233×28mm.
Page count: xvii,525pp inc. a few monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy is unused but was not supplied shrink-wrapped by the manufacturer so shows some evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs etc.

This item £15.00
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[Publisher’s price £36.00]
Weight without packaging: 833g.

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From the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Tudor era, many English dictionaries were arranged topically rather than alphabetically.

Contents:
The onomasiological approach;
On establishing a tradition;
Hermeneumata, Latin-English glosses, and nominales;
Colloquies, wordbooks, & dialogues for teaching & learning foreign languages;
Treatises on terminology;
John Withals' dictionary for young boys (1553);
James Howell’s dictionary for the genteel (1660);
John Wilkins' comprehensive thesaurus of English (1668);
Multilingual dictionaries & nomenclators;
The case of Johannes Amos Comenius;
Towards mental lexicography.

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