Chasing The Sun Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathan Green 1996 Henry Holt Publishing Language history books
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 1996 Henry Holt Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. NOTE: only mark seen is small scuff first blank page top corner where store sticker removed. The rest of the inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Tan hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear and feature black quarter trim w gold lettering along spine. The accompanying dust jacket is near fine with only very light shelf wear corners/edges. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 509 pages including index.
Chasing the Sun Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathan Green found inspiration for its title by Samuel Johnson’s realization that trying to compile a perfect, complete record of an evolving language is an endless task, otherwise like "chasing the sun".
The book is a history of lexicography and celebrates the dictionary maker. The story begins 4,500 years age in pre-Babylonian Sumeria where the first lexicon was created. The author traces the evolution of the practice to Greece, Rome, and Byzantium before arriving at the modernity of English language dictionaries.
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