Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Reading Trench reading Richardson -- Did Anne Maxwell print John Wilkins's An essay towards a real character and a philosophical language (1668)? -- "As well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant" -- Printed English dictionaries in the National Library of Russia to the mid-seventeenth century -- "A hundred visions and revisions": Malone's annotations to Johnson's Dictionary -- The use of "mechanical reasoning": John Quincy and his Lexicon physico-medicum (1719) -- Paratexts and the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: 'content marketing' in the nineteenth century? -- The "wants" of women: Lexicography and pedagogy in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury dictionaries* -- Claudius Hollyband: A lexicographer speaks his mind -- Subscribers and Patrons: Jacob Serenius and his Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum 1734 -- "Weak Shrube or Underwood": The unlikely medical glossator John Woodall and his glossary -- A "florid" preface about "a language that is very short, concise and sententious" -- List of contributors -- Index