Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made

Contents:
The first lexicographers and the first "dictionaries"
The middle ages: putting it in order
The move from Latin
Vulgar tongues
Slang: part I
The seventeenth century: hard words
The seventeenth century: variations and themes
The early eighteenth century
Samuel Johnson: the pivotal moment
America: the years before Webster
America: Noah Webster and Joseph Worcester
The new philology
The New English Dictionary
Slang: part II
The modern world