Gentle Art of Lexicography

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Excerpt from Gentle Art of Lexicography: As Pursued and Experienced by an AddictYet the thought of writing a small book on lexicography something rather less 'popular', rather more systematic and much more comprehensive, than the essay appearing, 1952, in From Sanskrit to Brazil had occurred to me more than once during the period that has elapsed since Origins appeared, late in 1958, only to be dismissed as, on brief consideration, impracticable for the above-mentioned reasons. Mr Hart, the most insidious and urbane of agents provocateurs, said, 'well, think it over.' I did: and the solution at which I eventually arrived was this.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.