Bloomsbury Rhyming Dictionary

Rhyming dictionaries are not new. The first record of one such volume is the 1570 Manipulus Vocabulorum by Peter Levens, although as this was inter‐linguistic being in Latin and English it may not count. In 1775 Walker's Rhyming Dictionary was first published and continued in print for over 150 years. It was intended, by its author, to be “a friend in need for poets and rhymsters”. Also known as a “thesaurus of rhymes” it was an indispensable guide for writers and poets and laid the foundation for volumes such as this Bloomsbury Rhyming Dictionary, which with the benefit of...