The Meaning of Everything

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