The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Author(s)

• Winchester, Simon

Bibliographic Information

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Simon Winchester

（Harper paperbacks）

HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

1st HarperPaperbacks international ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)

Details

• NCID: BA45190172
• ISBN:
  • 0061030228
• LCCN: 98010204
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 242 p.
• Size: 18 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1617.O94
  • DC21 : 423/.092
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Oxford English dictionary
  • LCSH : Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
  • LCSH : United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
  • LCSH : Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : New English dictionary on historical principles
  • LCSH : Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : English language -- Lexicography
  • LCSH : English language -- Etymology
  • LCSH : Minor, William Chester
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12716116