Julie Coleman & Anne McDermott 
Historical Dictionaries and Historical Dictionary Research [PDF ebook] 
Papers from the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, at the University of Leicester, 2002

Contents: John Considine, Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage. — Reiko Takeda, Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary? — Ian Lancashire, Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record. — Olga Karpova, Author’s Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries. — Natascia Leonardi, An Analysis of a 17th Century Conceptual Dictionary: John Wilkins’ and William Lloyd’s »An Alphabetical Dictionary«. — Rowena Fowler, Text and Meaning in Richardson’s Dictionary. — Joan Beal, An Autodidact’s Lexicon: Thomas Spence’s »Grand Repository of the English Language«. — Julie Coleman, The 3rd Edition of Grose’s »Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue«. — Werner Hüllen, Roget’s Thesaurus, deconstructed. — Thora van Male, From Incipit to Iconophor. — Maria Pilar-Perea, The History of the »Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear«. — Gregory James, Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the 1st European Lexicographical Work in China. — Antonette di Paolo Healey, Polysemy and the DOE. — Robert E. Lewis, Aspects of Polysemy in the MED. — Eric Stanley, Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the 18th Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English. — Tania Styles, Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in OED3. — Marijke Mooijaart, Citations in the »Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal«. — Norman Blake, Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare’s Informal English.