Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900

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Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900 Inventory of the Cordell Collection, Indiana State University

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Compiled by David E. Vancil

ISBN: 0-313-28700-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28700-8

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432 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/1992

List Price: $127.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science

Series Number: 7

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Any collection serving researchers in that fascinating field needs both catalog of the exquisite, impressively deep Cordell collection.
—Wilson Library Bulletin

Description: The Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries, housed at Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, is the world's largest collection of dictionaries, with over 5100 pre-1901 titles and several thousand more from the twentieth century. A short title catalog and a compflation of English-language holdings for the pre-1901 materials have been published previously, but here, for the first time, is an extensive conflated listing which interfiles foreign and English-language materials, and gives access to holdings through a date index, a language index, and a subject guide. Organized alphabetically by author, editor, or compiler (or by title in the case of main-entry titles), the catalog's arrangement by-date under the main entry offers a sense of publishing history for individual lexicographers. The catalog not only contains exact information on the holdings at Indiana State University, but also provides guidance for the use of sources that may be available in less extensive collections. Aside from obvious utility in the areas of languages, linguistics, and lexicography, the catalog provides valuable information for research in other fields, particularly Western European political history and social anthropology. Designed for researchers and collectors alike, the work has been compressed into a convenient format. As descriptive information on individual titles has been sacrificed for completeness, researchers on English-language dictionaries may also wish to consult English-Language Dictionaries, 1604-1900, cataloged and compiled by Robert Keating O'Neill (Greenwood Press, 1988).

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Remarks by Warren N. Cordell
Use of the Catalog
Abbreviations
Main Entries
Date Index
Language Index
Subject Guide

LC Card Number: 92-30883

LCC Class: PE1611

Dewey Class: 016.423


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