Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Dictionary History -- DU CANGE: LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE -- CAMBRIDGE, TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY MS 0.5.4: A FIFTEENTHCENTURY PEDAGOGICAL DICTIONARY? -- LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH PERIOD: THE MANUSCRIPT RECORD -- AUTHOR'S LEXICOGRAPHY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARIES -- AN ANALYSIS OF A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CONCEPTUAL DICTIONARY WITH AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENTRIES AND A NETWORK DEFINITION STRUCTURE: JOHN WILKINS' AND WILLIAM LLOYD'S AN ALPHABETICAL DICTIONARY ( 1668) -- TEXT AND MEANING IN RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY -- AN AUTODIDACT'S LEXICON: THOMAS SPENCE'S GRAND REPOSITORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1775) -- THE THIRD EDITION OF GROSE'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE: BOOKSELLER'S HACKWORK OR POSTHUMOUS MASTERPIECE? -- ROGET'S THESAURUS, DECONSTRUCTED -- FROM INCIPIT TO ICONOPHOR -- THE HISTORY OF A MULTI-DIALECTAL CATALAN DICTIONARY: THE DICCIONARI CATALA-VALENCIA-BALEAR -- CULTURE AND THE DICTIONARY: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIRST EUROPEAN LEXICOGRAPHICAL WORK IN CHINA -- Historical Dictionaries -- POLYSEMY AND THE DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH -- ASPECTS OF POLYSEMY IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY -- POLYSEMY AND SYNONYMY AND HOW THESE CONCEPTS WERE UNDERSTOOD FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ONWARDS IN TREATISES, AND APPLIED IN DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH -- CULINARY EXCHANGES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ETYMOLOGIES OF SOME LOANWORDS IN THE THIRD EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY -- CITATIONS IN THE WOORDENBOEK DER NEDERLANDSCHE ΤAAL -- ORDERING A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY: THE EXAMPLE OF SHAKESPEARE'S INFORMAL ENGLISH -- Index