Author(s): Simon Winchester

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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a fifty-year task requiring the assistance of thousands of volunteers - one of the keenest a W C Minor. Minor was a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder. Here Simon Winchester tells this uplifting tale.

1998. Reprint. A near fine copy only marked by light uniform tanning of the pages. The d/w is unclipped and fine.