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Henry Hitchings
292 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374113025
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 19 October 2005
Description
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Sa...
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Henry Hitchings
292 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374113025
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 19 October 2005
Description
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Sa...