Chasing the Sun Dictionary Makers and the Dictio

First edition. A scholarly and immensely readable history of dictionaries and of some of the people who made them, from clay tablets to CD-ROMS, "putting a little flesh on lexicographical bones and navigating the political and linguistic debates that have shaped the tradition." The author is England's leading lexicographer of slang and jargon. Illustrations. xviii, 510 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..