Several of the principal compilers of the OED have already been sung – not least the editor James Murray, who took over two decades to reach the letter ‘T’. It is his newly-discovered address book that has shed light on previously unknown army of contributors (cf. the creation of Wikipedia.)
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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Edition:Hardback978178474493907/09/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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From the Bible to Simon Schama, a huge investigation of how the writing of history influences the record of human experience, and therefore its development.
Making History: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
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A memoir by the Egytian woman who set up an independent book shop with a friend and her sister in 2002 - ten years later it had grown to include ten shops and 150 employees. Full of the nois... read more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
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A history of medieval and early modern manuscripts - from Beowulf to Shakespeare folios. Illustrated.
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Marius is the distinguished antiquarian bookseller who features in the work of Javier Marias and worked for Bernard Stone and Peter Ellis; also a wide-ranging writer, most recently on Naples... read more
A Factotum in the Book Trade
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