The Professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Simon Winchester
- 1st HarperPerennial ed
- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1999
- xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)
006099486X (pbk.) 13.00
Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 --Friends and associates. Minor, William Chester.
Oxford English dictionary. New English dictionary on historical principles.
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