English Dictionaries





A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth

Volume 10 (Stra-3ere)
New Edition
$450.00
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Hardback Jul 2003 ISBN13: 9780198605423ISBN10: 0198605420


A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth

Volume 12 (War-Zurnbarrie)
New Edition
$450.00
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Hardback Jul 2003 ISBN13: 9780198605409ISBN10: 0198605404


The Oxford English Dictionary

20 Volume Set
Second Edition
$995.00
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Hardback Mar 1989 ISBN13: 9780198611868ISBN10: 0198611862 A dictionary like no other in the world, the OED has been described as "among the wonders of the world of scholarship."


The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

in slipcase with reading glass
New Edition
$399.95
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Hardback Nov 1991 ISBN13: 9780198612582ISBN10: 0198612583 Captures the complete twenty-volume OED II in just one volume, at a fraction of the price


Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series

Volume II
$70.00
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Hardback Dec 1993 ISBN13: 9780198612995ISBN10: 0198612990


Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series

Volume I
$70.00
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Hardback Dec 1993 ISBN13: 9780198612926ISBN10: 0198612923


The Oxford English Dictionary

Blue Leather Edition
Twenty-volume Set
Second Edition
$6,295.00
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Leather Binding Jun 1989 ISBN13: 9780191958922ISBN10: 0191958921


The Meaning of Everything

The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
$19.99
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Paperback Aug 2004 ISBN13: 9780195175004ISBN10: 019517500X Best-selling author Simon Winchester delivers a spell-binding account of the making of the OED


The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations

$45.00
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Hardback Jul 2006 ISBN13: 9780195162967ISBN10: 019516296X Wartime observations of soldiers and civilians, providing different perspectives on America's worst backyard battle


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“A new era in the historical study of English”  —David Crystal

cover The first historical thesaurus ever written —over 40 years in the making and covering 920,000+ words from Old English to the present— the HTOED is a groundbreaking view of the historical inventory of English.


“A new era in the historical study of English”  —David Crystal

cover The first historical thesaurus ever written —over 40 years in the making and covering 920,000+ words from Old English to the present— the HTOED is a groundbreaking view of the historical inventory of English.


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