The Oxford English Dictionary. Being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of a New English Dictionary on Historical Principles founded mainly on the Materials.
London/Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961-1978; 1987.
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Fine set of the Re-issued edition of 1933. 17 vols. 4to. Blue buckram. Fine set, with all dust jackets, generally very good (some toning to jacket spines, one jacket spine defective). NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. PMM 371.
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The Oxford English Dictionary, that is, the re-issue of New English Dictionary on Historical Principles in 12 volumes, the 1961 re-issue of the Supplement and Bibliography, and the four-volume Supplement.
“The greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship.” — Printing and the Mind of Man, 371.