Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition)

Typeset in Swift and Arial, in three‐column format, printed in Italy, sturdily bound, this handsome volume approaches the lexicographic ideal – at the truly remarkable bargain price of £35.

The New Oxford Dictionary of English of 1998, the first edition of the present work, was a “completely new dictionary, written on new principles”. It built on the excellence of the lexicographical traditions of scholarship and analysis of evidence as set down by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) over a century ago, yet was also very much a new venture, a new departure. The New Oxford Dictionary of English...