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Year:
1598
Short description:
John Florio's "A Worlde of Wordes"
Medium description:
Italian-English dictionary
second edition, 1611
retitled "Queen Anna's New World of Words"
Tags:
history of teaching
in Britain
FLT
BLD (bilingual dictionary)
Hanks, P. (2005). English Lexicography. in Brown, K. (ed).
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd Edition) Vol.4
. : Elsevier Science, pp.184-194 [p.185]
Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.81]
Starnes, D. W. T. & Noyes, G. E. (1991). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson. 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press [p.5]