Lessons in Latrinalia
It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing ...
Tag: Kripke Collection
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A Little Dictionary of Obscenities
Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in ... -
A Glossary of Ape
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not a lexicographer but an author of pulp fiction, dozens of adventure and science fiction novels. ... -
Still Unpacking the Kripke Collection
At the beginning of 2023, I wrote that I’d pull interesting dictionaries and occasionally other language books and items from ... -
A Glimpse into the Paper Lab
Hello Fair Blog Readers! My name is Natalie Guingrich and, as the newest addition to the Preservation Lab, I thought ... -
A Most Expensive Textbook
I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien ... -
A Book Unique in Several Dimensions
Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors ... -
Bawdy Songs and Sentimental Bookplates
We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the ... -
Just Say the Word
If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you ... -
What Is Gavelkind?
Few of us, not even lexicographers, recall William Somner (1606–1669), but he figures importantly in the history of English dictionaries ...