Volume I: General-purpose Dictionaries
1. Introduction, A. P. Cowie
Part I. Early Glossaries; Bilingual, and Multilingual Dictionaries
2. Glosses, Glossaries, and Dictionaries in the Medieval Period, Hans Sauer
3. Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries of the Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century, Janet Bately
4. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries, Monique Cormier
5. Bilingual Dictionaries of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Carla Marello
6. Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Donna Farina and George Durman
Part 2. The History of English Monolingual Dictionaries
7. The Early Development of the English Monolingual Dictionary Seventeenth and Early Eighteenthth Centuries, Noel Osselton
8. Johnson and Richardson, Allen Reddick
9. Major American Dictionaries, Sidney Landau
10. The Oxford English Dictionary, Lynda Mugglestone
11. The OED Supplements, Charlotte Brewer
12. National and Regional Dictionaries of English, Richard Bailey
13. Dictionaries of Scots, Margaret Dareau and Iseabail Macleod
14. The Period Dictionaries, Michael Adams
15. Dictionaries of Caribbean English, Jeannette Allsopp
16. The Electronic OED: the computerization of a historical dictionary, Edmund Weiner
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Volume II: Specialized Dictionaries
Part 1. Dictionaries Specialized According to Ordering of Entries, Topical or Linguistic Content, or Speech Community
1. Dictionaries of Synonyms and Thesauri, Werner Hüllen
2. Scientific and Technical Dictionaries, Michael Hoare
3. Dictionaries of Place-names, Carole Hough
4. Dictionaries of Personal Names, Patrick Hanks
5. Pronouncing Dictionaries - i Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Joan Beal
6. Pronouncing Dictionaries - ii Mid to Late-Nineteenth Century, Beverley Collins and Inger Mees
7. Syntagmatic and Phraseological Dictionaries, Thomas Herbst and Michael Klotz
8. Dictionaries of Quotations, Elizabeth Knowles
9. English Etymological Dictionaries, Anatoly Liberman
10. Dialect Dictionaries, Robert Penhallurick
11. Slang and Cant Dictionaries, Julie Coleman
Part 2. Dictionaries Specialized According to Uses and Users
12. Dictionaries of Usage, Robert Allen
13. The American Collegiate Dictionaries, Sidney Landau
14. The Earliest Foreign Learners' Dictionaries, A. P. Cowie
15. Linguistic Research and Learner's Dictionaries: The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Thierry Fontenelle
16. The Cobuild Project, Rosamund Moon
17. Dictionaries in Electronic Form, Hilary Nesi
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects