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CHASING THE SUN is an immensely readable and fascinating history of the dictionary, of the urge to set knowledge - in the case, words -in order. Jonathan Green traces the story from the first lexicon created in 2340 BC in Sumeria to the pinnacle of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork. Throughout he tells the story through the lives of the lexicographers themselves, a diverse and fascinating collection of men obsessed with words and language, men who with extraordinary frequency assume a godlike role.
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Chasing the sun : dictionary-makers and the dictionaries they made / by Jonathon Green
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1996
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Lexicography History. Lexicographers. Encyclopedias and dictionaries History and criticism. Language and languages Etymology Lexicography. 1 Kg. Codice articolo 341049
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Hardcover. Condizione: VG++/F/VG++. y First Edition. 1996 HARDBACK * Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.*Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Jonathan Cape* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs. FINE* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £25.00, some minor shelf wear to top edge with one small (1/4?) tear to back top edge. NEAR FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright. No Inscriptions or annotations, very slight paper colouration, NEAR FINE* Illustrations: B/W photos.* Pages: 380 pp. text. xliii pp. Notes, Bibliography & Index.* Review :- The title of this engaging history of lexicography is taken from Samuel Johnson's preface to The Dictionary of English Language of 1755 - in which the great man moans at the endless task lexicography turned out to be, given that when he started he was dreamily anticipating 'the hours which I should revel away in feasts of literature'. Green, himself a dictionary-maker, charts the history of his craft from pre-Babylonian Sumeria to the present day. A fat book, packed with interest for anyone fascinated with the process by which language is captured. (Kirkus UK) 1996-03-07. n. Codice articolo 576
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