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The Periodical
Notes and Queries
List of illustrations
Cawdrey's Dictionary (1604)
Johnson's Dictionary (1755)
Webster's Dictionary (1828)
Herbert Coleridge
Frederick Furnivall
The Scriptorium (Mill Hill)
Appeal to Readers
Slips
A proofed page from the first fascicle
James C. Gilbert
The first fascicle
Henry Bradley
`Sunnyside', 78 Banbury Road; Plaque and red pillar-box outside 78 Banbury Road
The Scriptorium (Banbury Road)
Inside the Old Ashmolean
Charles Onions
William Craigie
James Murray with daughters (c.1915)
Complete first ten-volume set of the OED
Four centuries of definitions
Robert Burchfield
John Simpson with some of the current lexicographers
Picture Acknowledgements
Pictures are reprinted with the permission of the Secretary to the Delegates of the Press.
Picture research by Sandra Assersohn.
Thanks also to Rupert Winchester, Martin Maw, OUP Archivist, and Peter Gilliver, Associate Editor for the OED.