A new online project to make historic correspondence related to the founding of the Oxford English Dictionary freely available is now underway.
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press,
On December 4, an incredible collection of rare dictionaries, valued at close to $1 million, goes on the block at Bonhams in New York City.
New York—Thomas Malin Rodgers, Jr. (1943-2012) formed an incredibly extensive collection of dictionaries and other lexicographical works, spanning 3,500 years in date—from a 16th-century B.C.