Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words (1658)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1658
Lexicographer
Edward Phillips Note: 12/10/2005
Languages: Aramaic, Syrian
Book title
The New World of English Words: Or, a Generall Dictionary: Containing the Interpretations of such hard words as are derived from other Languages; whether Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Dutch, Saxon, &c. their Etymologies and perfect Definitions ...
Publication place
London
Printer
E. Tyler
Publisher
Nath. Brooke
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript (Yale University Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
hard words
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
350
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 12700
number: 12700
Alston
V.53
Schafer
1658 P
Wing
P 2068
Other editions
1662: Wing P2069 (Alston V.54);
1663: Wing P2070 (Alston V.55);
1671: Wing P2071 (Anthony a Wood's Athenae Oxonienses IV, 760 ff., says that Phillips added Blount's law lexicon entries; Alston V.56);
1678: Wing P2072A (Alston V.58);
1696: Wing P2073 (ca. 17,000 entries, the 4th edition, which deletes `curious' words and classical names and adds Chaucerian words; Alston V.59)
1706: ESTC T101516
1663: Wing P2070 (Alston V.55);
1671: Wing P2071 (Anthony a Wood's Athenae Oxonienses IV, 760 ff., says that Phillips added Blount's law lexicon entries; Alston V.56);
1678: Wing P2072A (Alston V.58);
1696: Wing P2073 (ca. 17,000 entries, the 4th edition, which deletes `curious' words and classical names and adds Chaucerian words; Alston V.59)
1706: ESTC T101516
Facsimiles
Phillips, Edward. The New World of English Words, 1658. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 162. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Criticisms
Bately, Janet M. "Ray, Worlidge, and Kersey's Revision of The New World of English Words." Anglia 85 (1967): 1-14. view record
Hanford, James H. "The Marriage of Edward Phillips and Anne Milton." The Review of English Studies 9, alt. no. 33 (1933 January): 58-60. view record
Starnes, DeWitt T., Gertrude E. Noyes, and Gabriele Gabriele. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. 1946. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 48-57, 84-87. view record
Madden, Frederick. "Phillips's `New World of Words'." Notes & Queries 281 (1855 March 17): 208-09. view record
Hone, P. "Edward and John Phillips: Nephews and Pupils of Milton." Ph.D. dissertation. view record
Godwin, William. Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton, including various particulars of the literary and political history of their times, by William Godwin. To which are added, I. Collections for the life of Milton, by John Aubrey ... II. The life of Milton, by Edward Philips, printed in the year 1694. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. view record
Hanford, James H. "The Marriage of Edward Phillips and Anne Milton." The Review of English Studies 9, alt. no. 33 (1933 January): 58-60. view record
Starnes, DeWitt T., Gertrude E. Noyes, and Gabriele Gabriele. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. 1946. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 48-57, 84-87. view record
Madden, Frederick. "Phillips's `New World of Words'." Notes & Queries 281 (1855 March 17): 208-09. view record
Hone, P. "Edward and John Phillips: Nephews and Pupils of Milton." Ph.D. dissertation. view record
Godwin, William. Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton, including various particulars of the literary and political history of their times, by William Godwin. To which are added, I. Collections for the life of Milton, by John Aubrey ... II. The life of Milton, by Edward Philips, printed in the year 1694. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. view record
Sources
- Starnes, DeWitt T., and Gertrude E. Noyes. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson: 1604-1755. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. 48-57. view record
- Osselton, N. E. "Distorting the Linguistic Record: Secondary Documentation in the Oxford English Dictionary." Understanding the Historiography of Linguistics: Problems and Projects. Ed. W. Hüllen. Münster: Nodus, 1990. view record
