Hardly Harmless Drudgery
A 500-year pictorial history of lexicographic geniuses, silists
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This exhibition catalog documents a comprehensive, pictorial history of lexicography spanning five centuries, assembled for a Grolier Club show by Brian Garner and Jack Lynch.
It showcases artifacts, editions, and materials that illustrate the development of dictionaries and the lives of their makers.
The book serves both as a visual record of the exhibition and as a resource for the history and study of lexicography.
It collects expert scholarship and rare items that illuminate shifts in language recording and usage over time.
The catalog is valuable to scholars, lexicographers, and anyone interested in the history of dictionaries and language.
It showcases artifacts, editions, and materials that illustrate the development of dictionaries and the lives of their makers.
The book serves both as a visual record of the exhibition and as a resource for the history and study of lexicography.
It collects expert scholarship and rare items that illuminate shifts in language recording and usage over time.
The catalog is valuable to scholars, lexicographers, and anyone interested in the history of dictionaries and language.
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