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List of Figures, vii; List of Abbreviations, viii; Preface andAcknowledgements, ix; 1. The Character of the Earliest English Dictionaries,1; 2. Figurative Words: Modern Practice and the Origins of a LabellingTradition, 16; 3. Common Words: John Kersey and the First General Dictionaryof English, 25; 4. Dialect Words in General Dictionaries, 34; 5. Old Words:Defining Obsolescence, 46; 6. Literary Words: Blount's Glossographia and SirThomas Browne, 54; 7. Setting up a New Bilingual Vernacular Dictionary: HenryHexham (1647), 61; 8. Style Markers: Early Bilingual Dictionaries and EnglishUsage, 73; 9. Fixing the Spelling: Errour and Honor in Johnson and Bailey,83. 10. Phrasal Verbs: Dr Johnson's Use of Bilingual Sources, 93; 11. ADictionary Compiler at Work in the Sixteenth Century, 104; 12.Alphabetization in Early Dictionaries of English, 117; 13. AnEighteenth-Century Bilingualized Learners' Dictionary, 127; 14. SecondaryDocumentation in Historical Lexicography, 137; 15. Dictionary Criticism:Three Historical Dictionaries, 148; 16. Bilingual Dictionaries with Dutch: aCase Study in European Lexicography, 157; Bibliography, 167; Index, 183.