Henry Cockeram, English Dictionary (1623)

Date

1623

Author

Book title

The English Dictionarie: Or, An Interpreter of hard English Words. Enabling as well Ladies and Gentlewomen, young Schollers, Clarkes, Merchants, as also Strangers of any Nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult Authors already printed in our Language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a Collection of the choisest words contained in the Table Alphabeticall and English Expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore

Publication place

London

Printer

Eliot's Court Press

Publisher

N. Butter

Transcription source

Scolar Press facsimile (Bodleian Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

hard words
place name
proper name

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Pholiphage.. An Extraordinarie eater. (i1v)

Alston

V.31

Schafer

1623 C/D/E, 1626 C

STC

5461, 5461.2

Other editions

1626: STC 5462 (Alston V.32);
1631: STC 5463 (Alston V.33);
1632: STC 5464 (Alston V.34);
1637: STC 5465 (Alston V.35-36);
1639: STC 5466 (Alston V.37);
1642: Wing C4864 (Alston V.38);
1647: Wing C4865 (Alston V.39);
1650: Wing C4866 (Alston V.40);
1651: Wing C4868, -68A (Alston V.41);
1655: Wing C4869 (Alston V.42);
1658: Wing C4870 (Alston V.43);
1670: Wing C4871 (Alston V.44), see Samuel Clarke.

Facsimiles

Cockeram, Henry. The English Dictionarie, 1623. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 124. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. view record

Modern editions

Cockeram, Henry. The English Dictionarie of 1623 by Henry Cockeram. New York: Huntington Press, 1930. view record

Criticisms

Osselton, N. E. "Alphabetisation in Monolingual English Dictionaries to Johnson." Lexicographers and their Works. Ed. Gregory James. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989. 165-73. view record
Schäfer, Jürgen. "Chaucer in Shakespeare's Dictionaries: The Beginning." The Chaucer Review 17.2 (1982 Fall): 182-92. 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. 26-36. view record
Stein, Gabriele. "Illustrations in Dictionaries." International Journal of Lexicography 4.2 (1991): 99-127. view record
Whiting, George W. "Milton and Cockeram's `Dictionarie'." Notes and Queries 193 (1948 December 24): 555-58. view record
Wooldridge, Terence Russon. "Robert Estienne, cruciverbiste. Les équations sémantiques du Dictionnaire françoislatin avec un post-scriptum sur The English Dictionary (1623) de Henry Cockeram." Cahiers de lexicologie 27.2 (): 107-16. 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
Morton, Mark. "Cockeram's Cookery ." Gastronomica 7.1 (2007): 12-14. 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. 26-36. view record
Cawdrey, Robert. A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words (1604): The First English Dictionary. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1966. view record
Rider, John. Bibliotheca Scholastica, 1589. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 217. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
Bullokar, John. An English Expositor, 1616. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 11. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967. 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