1. Introductory Materials (by Stein, Gabriele); 2. I. Introduction; 3. II. A Chronological List of the Dictionaries with their Editions and Locations; 4. III. Select Bibliography; 5. The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755 (by Starnes, De Witt T.); 6. Foreword; 7. Illustrations; 8. I. The Medieval and Renaissance Heritage of the English Dictionary; 9. II. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall (1604); 10. III. John Bullokar's An English Expositor (1616); 11. IV. Henry Cockeram's The English Dictionarie (1623); 12. V. Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1656); 13. VI. Edward Phillips' The New World of English Words (1658); 14. VII. Elisha Coles's An English Dictionary (1676); 15. VIII. Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689); 16. IX. J.K.'s A New English Dictionary (1702); 17. X. Cocker's English Dictionary (1704); 18. XI. John Kersey's Revision of Edward Phillips' The New World of Words (1706); 19. XII. Glossographia Anglicana Nova (1707); 20. XIII. John Kersey's Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum (1708); 21. XIV. Nathan Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721); 22. XV. Nathan Bailey's The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Volume II (1727); 23. XVI. Nathan Bailey and Others, Dictionarium Britannicum (1730); 24. XVII. Thomas Dyche and William Pardon's A New General English Dictionary (1735); 25. XVIII. The Identical Dictionaries of 1735 (B.N. Defoe), 1737 (Anonymous), 1739 (J. Sparrow), and 1742 (James Manlove); 26. XIX. Benjamin Martin's Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749); 27. XX. A Pocket Dictionary (1753); 28. XXI. [John Wesley's] The Complete English Dictionary (1753); 29. XXII. The Scott-Bailey A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1755) and Retrospect; 30. Appendices; 31. I. Medieval and Renaissance Vocabularies and the English Dictionary; 32. II. The Development of Cant Lexicography in English, 1566-1785; 33. III. A Bibliography and Census of Dictionaries in American Libraries; 34. Notes; 35. Index
