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Author /Editor
1440
Dictionary
Promptorium Parvulorum, sivre Clericorum
("Storehouse [of words] for children or clerics")
Size /Type
English-Latin
1476
Caxton
Printing in England
1480
Caxton
French-English
1499
Caxton
Promptorium
"hard words"
Latin-English
1500
1533
John Withals
English-Latin
1538
Latin-English
1565
Thomas Cooper
French-English
Author /Editor
Dictionary
Size /Type
1552
Richard Huloet
Abecedarium Anglo-Latinum
English-Latin-(Fr.)
1582
Richard Mulcaster
Elementarie
8,000 words
1588
Thomas Thomas
Latin-English
1598
John Florio
A Worlde of Words
Italian-English
1604
Robert Cawdrey
2,500 words
1616
John Bullokar
An English Expositor
1623
Henry Cockeram
An Interpreter of
Thomas Blount
Glossographia (or
A Dictionary Interpreting
all such Hard Words ... as are now used in
our refined English Tongue)
3 parts
1658
Edward Phillips
1673
Thomas Blount
1676
Elisha Coles
An English Dictionary
(specialists)
25,000 words
Year
Author /Editor
Dictionary
Size /Type
1702
John Kersey
1704
John Harris
Lexicon Technicum
1706
38,000 words
1721
Nathan Bailey
1727
Nathan Bailey
Volume II
supplementary
volume: 2 parts,
1731 ed.
1728
Ephraim Chambers
Cyclopaedia (or
1730
Nathan Bailey
Dictionarium Britannicum
48,000 words
1747
Samuel Johnson
1749
Benjamin Martin
1755
Samuel Johnson
Dictionary
1755
An Universal Dictionary of
Arts and Sciences)
Author /Editor
James Buchanan
Dictionary
Linguae Britannicae
Size /Type
1764
William Johnston
1764
John Entick
Spelling Dictionary
1773
William Kenrick
1780
Thomas Sheridan
"respelled"
1783
Noah Webster
260 impressions
(1783-1843)
1791
John Walker
1818
Encyclopaedia metropolitana
(cf. OED)
1818
Johnson's Dictionary
1820
1828
Joseph E. Worcester,
ed.
Chalmers's Dictionary
1828
Noah Webster
1830
Joseph Worcester
1837
Charles Richardson
(cf. OED)
1841
Noah Webster
new edition
1846
Joseph Worcester
(1857)
Richard Chenevix
Trench
(cf. OED)
1860
Joseph Worcester
104,000 entries,
1,800 pages
1864
1882
Charles Annandale
1890
Merriam
International Dictionary
1893
abridged edition
2 vols.
Author /Editor
Dictionary
1909
Merriam
International Dictionary
1913
Size /Type
450,000 terms
1927
1928
1888-1928, 1933
1934
600,000 entries
1938
1947
132,000
145,000
1947
1953
1961
1963
1966
Random House
1968
Random House
1969
1973
1983
450,000 entries
(100,000 new)
155,000
160,000