HISTORICAL THESAURUS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: with additional material from A Thesaurus of Old English Oxford English Dictionary; Christian, Kay [Editor]; Roberts, Jane [Editor]; Samuels, M. L. [Editor]; Wotherspoon, Irene [Editor] Books about Books

Foreword by Randolph Quirk. In two volumes. Pp. xxxvi+1784(last blank)+x+2110(last blank), Volume I mostly printed triple column, Volume II (the index) mostly in six columns, selected bibliography, index; thick demy 4to; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; ribbon markers; together within navy cloth slipcase; a couple of fore-corners faintly creased; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009. Second impression. *'Resource charting the semantic development of the huge and varied vocabulary of English . . . containing almost every word in English from Old English to the present day' [Preface].