Books

Bate, W. Jackson.  Samuel Johnson.  New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

Béjoint, Henri.  Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries.  Oxford University Press, 1994.

Burchfield, Robert, ed.  Studies in Lexicography.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Clifford, James L.  Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1979.

Friend, Joseph.  The Development of American Lexicography 1798-1864.  The Hague: Mouton, 1967.

Green, Jonathon.  Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made.  New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Holmes, Richard.  Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage.  New York: Pantheon, 1993.

Householder, Fred W. and Sol Saporta, eds.  Problems in Lexicography.  Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hague: Mouton, 1967.

Landau, Sidney I.  Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Second Edition.  Cambridge University Press, 2001.

McDavid, Raven I., Jr. and Audrey R. Duckert, eds.  Lexicography in English.  New York Academy of Sciences, 1973.

Morton, Herbert C.  The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics.  Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Murray, K. M. E.  Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Read, Allen Walker.  "Dictionary" in the on-line Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2000.

Reddick, Allen.  The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773.  Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Sinclair, John.  Corpus, Concordance, Collocation.  Oxford University Press, 1991.

Starnes, DeWitt T. and Gertrude E. Noyes.  The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946.  Reissued with an introduction by Gabriele Stein, Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991.

Stein, Gabriele.  The English Dictionary Before Cawdrey.  Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1985.

Svensén, Bo.  Practical Lexicography: Principles and Methods of Dictionary-Making. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Warfel, Harry R.  Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America.  New York: Macmillan, 1936.

Winchester, Simon.  The Professor and the Madman.  New York: HarperCollins, 1998; published in the UK under the title The Surgeon of Crowthorne.

Zgusta, Ladislav.  Manual of Lexicography.  Prague: Academia; The Hague: Mouton, 1971.
 

Periodicals

Dictionaries.

American Speech, Quarterly Journal of the American Dialect Society.

Verbatim: The Language Quarterly.

English Today: The International Review of the English Language.

International Journal of Lexicography.

Lexicographica.

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