Robert Cawdrey, A Table Alphabetical (1604)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1604
Lexicographer
Book title
A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and vnderstanding of hard vsuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c. With the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit & helpe of Ladies, Gentlewomen, or any other vnskilfull persons. Whereby they may the more easilie and better vnderstand many hard English wordes, which they shall heare or read in Scriptures, Sermons, or elswhere, and also be made able to vse the same aptly themselues
Dedicated to
Publication place
London
Printer
J. Roberts
Publisher
Edmund Weaver
Transcription source
Scholars' Facsimiles, revised from a transcript by Raymond Siemens
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
hard words
Summary
Hard-word lexicon
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 19
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 2446
sample: § ABandon, cast away, or yeelde vp, to
leaue, or forsake.
Alston
V.1
Schafer
1604 C, 1609 C, 1613 C, 1617 C
STC
4884
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 6160-61 . view record
Other editions
1609: STC 4884.5 (Alston V.2);
1613: STC 4885 (Alston V.3);
1617: STC 4886 (Alston V.4)
Facsimiles
Cawdrey, Robert. A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604): The First English Dictionary. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1966. view record
Cawdrey, Robert. A Table Alphabeticall Robert Cawdrey. The English experience, its record in early printed books published in facsimile, no. 226. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1970. view record
Criticisms
Irons, E. A. "Sir Robert Cawdrie: Rector of South Luffenham, 1571-87." The Fourteenth Annual Report and Transactions of the Rutland Archaeological and Natural History Society (1916 May 27): 23-33. view record
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Noyes, Gertrude E. "The First English Dictionary, Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall." Modern Language Notes 58 (1943): 600-05. view record
Peters, Robert A. "Robert Cawdrey and the First English Dictionary." Journal of English Linguistics 2 (1968): 29-42. view record
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Chaucer in Shakespeare's Dictionaries: The Beginning." The Chaucer Review 17.2 (1982 Fall): 182-92. view record
Balmuth, Miriam. "`True Writing and Understanding of Hard Usual English Words': The First English-Language Dictionary." Readings on Language and Literacy: Essays in Honor of Jeanne S. Chall. Ed. Lillian R. Putnam. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, 1997. 287-301. view record
Brown, Sylvia. "Women and the godly art of rhetoric: Robert Cawdrey's Puritan dictionary." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41.1 (2001): 133-48. view record
Sönmez, Margaret. "The Influence of Early Monolingual Dictionaries and Word Lists on the Standardisation of English Spelling." Anglia 119.2 (2001): 207-31. view record
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