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Murray, K. M. Elisabeth (preface By R. W. Burchfield) ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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Murray, K. M. Elisabeth (preface by R. W. Burchfield) CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS - James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford, England Oxford University Press 1979 0192812653 / 9780192812650 First Thus Trade Paperback Very Good
(xii) 386 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine and a small scuff-mark on the lower right of the front cover; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. The cover features James Murray at work in the Scriptorium. The Chapters are: Round O and Crooked S: The Formative Years; The Great Learning Period: Schoolmaster and Citizen; The Discovery of Anglo Saxon; New Life in London; Furnivall's Henchman; Mill Hill: The Arcadian Years; The Web is Spun: Abortive Negotiations with Macmillan; The Fly is Caught: Negotiations with the Delegates of the Oxford University Press; Sundry Shocks and Serious Jars: The Raw Materials for the Dictionary; Hoc Unum Facio: Solving the Technical Problems; The Triple Nightmare: Space Time and Money; Editor and Publisher: Confrontation with Benjamin Jowett; The Bete Noire of the Press; Shearing Samson's Locks: The Pace of Production Must Be Increased; Not the Least of the Glories of the University of Oxford; The Sands Run Out; and The Dic and the Little Dics: The Man and His Family; followed by appendices and an index.
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