The Professor and The Madman Tale of Murder Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 1998 Harper Collins Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are still crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Black hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. Illustrated endpapers front and back. Octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 242 pages.
The Professor and The Madman by Simon Winchester is subtitled A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857 and took 70 yrs to complete. Hidden within its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story of two remarkable men. Prof. James Murray, schoolmaster and banker, was the editor. Dr William Chester Minor was an American surgeon who served in the Civil War. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was prolific, sending thousands of handwritten notes from his Conn. home, 50 miles from Oxford. Prof. Murry invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate the work but the offer was regularly refused. Thus, decades passed where the two men maintained a close relationship only through correspondence.
Then, Murray decided to make the trip himself to see Minor and meet his contributor only to find him locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane.......
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