Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

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Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K.M. Elisabeth Murray; With a preface by R.W. Burchfield, 9780300089196
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  • ISBN: 9780300089196 | 0300089198
  • Cover: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2/8/2001

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This unique & celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship & became a great lexicographer & the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.