by Jack Lynch
5. See Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 68.
6. Trench, On Some Deficiencies, p. 9.
7. Philological Society, Proposal, p. 4.
8. Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, pp. 11, 32.
9. See Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 73.
10. Trench, On Some Deficiencies, p. 29.
11. Trench, On Some Deficiencies, p. 31.
12. Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” p. 74.
CHAPTER 18½: OVERLONG AND OVERDUE
1. Dickens, David Copperfield, p. 169.
2. Blount, Glossographia, sig. A3r.
3. Rees, Cyclopædia, 1:vii.
4. Coughlan, “Dictionary Reaches Final Definition.”
5. Lough, “Encyclopédie,” p. 3.
6. Watts, “Encyclopédie Méthodique,” p. 350.
7. Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, pp. 142–43.
8. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, p. 155.
9. Osselton, “Murray and His European Counterparts,” pp. 61–62.
10. The annual reports from 1991 to 2010 appear at http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/cad/.
CHAPTER 19: AN ALMS-BASKET OF WORDS
1. See Shea, Phone Book.
2. Katz, Cuneiform to Computer, p. 55.
3. Dodd, Beauties, 1:vi, 23.
4. Boswell, Life, 3:197.
5. Cochrane, “Most Famous Book of Its Kind,” p. 9.
6. Bartlett, Collection, p. i.
7. Katz, Cuneiform to Computer, p. 79.
8. “Bartlett’s Updated,” from Gleick’s blog, Bits in the Ether, http://www.around.com/bartletts.html.
9. Bunge, “Alms-Basket,” p. 24.
10. Hayman, “E. Cobham Brewer,” pp. ix–xi.
11. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1st ed., p. v.
12. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1st ed., p. v.
13. Hayman, “E. Cobham Brewer,” p. x.
14. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1st ed., p. vii.
CHAPTER 19½: READING THE DICTIONARY
1. Day, Market Driven Organization, chapter 6 (no page).
2. Collins, Are You a Geek? p. 93.
3. Eliot, Middlemarch, p. 52.
4. Disraeli, “Imprisonment of the Learned,” in Curiosities, 1:56.
5. Quoted in Franklin, Prison Writing, p. 153.
6. Hill, ed., Johnsonian Miscellanies, 2:352.
7. Orr, Life and Letters, 1:75.
8. Folsom, Walt Whitman’s Native Representations, p. 15.
9. Ferlinghetti and Peters, Literary San Francisco, p. 116.
10. Borges, Seven Nights, p. 109.
11. Stavans, Dictionary Days, p. 31.
12. Clark, Huxleys, p. 227.
13. Tedlow, Andy Grove, p. 295; Lesinski, Bill Gates, p. 9.
14. Anderson, Wikipedia, p. 15.
15. Kogan, Great EB, pp. 297?98.
16. Jacobs, Know It All, p. 5.
17. Jacobs, Know It All, p. 120.
18. Jacobs, Know It All, p. 9.
19. Shea, Reading the OED, pp. ix–x.
CHAPTER 20: MODERN MATERIA MEDICA
1. Gray and Carter, Anatomy, p. vii.
2. Richardson, Making, p. 14.
3. Richardson, Making, p. 144.
4. Richardson, Making, p. 6.
5. Richardson, Making, p. 166.
6. Gray and Carter, Anatomy, p. 675.
7. Richardson, Making, p. 168.
8. See Richardson, Making, pp. 197–99.
9. “Student’s Library,” p. 349.
10. Hacking, “Lost in the Forest.”
11. Cartwright, Diseases, p. 332.
12. Hacking, “Lost in the Forest.”
13. Davis, “Encyclopedia of Insanity,” p. 64.
14. Carey, “Revising Book on Disorders.”
15. Roan, “Revising the Book on Mental Illness.”
16. DSM, p. 39.
17. Davis, “Encyclopedia of Insanity,” pp. 61, 62.
CHAPTER 20½: INCOMPLETE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS
1. Segar, “Dictionary Making,” p. 210; Dressman, “Walt Whitman’s Plans,” p. 463; Warren, Walt Whitman’s Language Experiment, pp. 41–42; and Folsom, Walt Whitman’s Native Representations, p. 16.
2. Read, “Projected English Dictionaries.”
3. Osselton, “First English Dictionary?” pp. 175–76.
4. Stray, Classical Dictionaries, p. 59.
5. Sánchez, “Evolution of the Spanish Dictionary,” p. 137.
6. Considine, Academy Dictionaries, p. 168.
7. Urban, Nouveau sistême, p. 54.
8. See Hahn, Fachkommunikation, p. 38.
9. Considine, Academy Dictionaries, pp. 80–92.
10. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” pp. 17–18.
11. See Stockwell, A History of Information Storage and Retrieval, p. 109.
12. Appiah and Gates, Africana, p. ix.
13. Appiah and Gates, Africana, pp. ix–x.
14. Keller and Fontenot, Re-cognizing W. E. B. DuBois, p. 73.
CHAPTER 21: THE FOUNDATION STONE
1. See Campbell and Pryce, Library, p. 46.
2. See Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature, p. 128.
3. Campbell and Pryce, Library, pp. 73–74.
4. See Manguel, Library at Night, pp. 52–53.
5. Stockwell, History of Information Storage, p. 140.
6. See Burke, Social History of Knowledge, pp. 92–93.
7. Miller, Prince of Librarians, p. 14.
8. Miller, Prince of Librarians, p. 143.
9. Cutter, “New Catalogue of Harvard College Library,” p. 104.
10. Panizzi, Catalogue, 1:v.
11. Panizzi, Catalogue, 1:vi.
12. Panizzi, Catalogue, 1:vi.
13. Panizzi, Catalogue, 1:vii.
14. The best accounts are McCrimmon, Power, Politics, and Print, and Chaplin, GK.
15. Alston and Jannetta, Bibliography, p. 20.
16. Bakewell, Manual of Cataloguing Practice, p. 19.
17. Stockwell, History of Information Storage and Retrieval, p. 144.
18. Katz, Cuneiform to Computer, p. 311.
19. Katz, Cuneiform to Computer, p. 311.
20. See Burke, Social History of Knowledge, p. 93.
21. See Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 97.
22. Sonderland, review of National Union Catalog, p. 271.
23. Hoyle, “Superlatives and Compromises,” p. 235.
24. An up-to-the-minute tally of WorldCat’s holdings is at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/watch-worldcat-grow.en.html.
25. See DeZelar-Tiedman, “Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles.”
26. Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 123.
27. John Overholt (@john_overholt), Twitter posts, July 29, 2014.
28. Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 129.
CHAPTER 21½: INDEX LEARNING
1. Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
2. Witty, “Early Indexing Techniques,” p. 141.
3. Pope, Dunciad, 1.277–80.
4. Grub Street Journal no. 322 (February 26, 1735/36).
5. Richardson, Correspondence, 2:229.
6. Tankard, “Reading Lists,” p. 349.
7. Plato, Phaedrus, in Works, 1:610.
CHAPTER 22: THE GOOD LIFE
1. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 12.
2. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 23.
3. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 33.
4. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 133.
5. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 44.
6. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 156.
7. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 254.
8. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 205.
9. Grove, Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1:v.
10. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 228.
11. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 285.
12. Graves, Life & Letters, p. 293.
13. Graves, Life & Letters, pp. 282, 2
92.
14. Post, “How I Came,” p. 64.
15. Post, “How I Came,” p. 4.
16. Post, “How I Came,” pp. 4, 56.
17. Post, Etiquette, pp. xiii–xiv.
18. Post, Etiquette, pp. 1, 71, 154, 506.
19. Post, Etiquette, p. 4.
20. Post, Etiquette, pp. 6, 7.
21. Post, Etiquette, pp. 58, 122, 194, 567, 544, 144.
22. Post, Etiquette, pp. 152–53, 20, 18–19.
23. Post, Etiquette, p. 34.
24. “Emily Price Post,” in Encyclopedia of World Biography.
25. Poole, English Parnassus, sig. a7v–a8r.
CHAPTER 22½: SOME UNLIKELY REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Stavans, Dictionary Days, p. 63.
CHAPTER 23: PRESUMED PURITY
1. Vitz, Sigmund Freud’s Christian Unconscious, p. 112.
2. Merck, Merck’s Index, p. iii.
3. Merck, Merck’s Index, pp. iii–iv, vii–viii.
4. Merck, Merck’s Index, p. iv.
5. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal 10 (April 1889): 94.
6. Merck, Merck’s Index, p. v.
7. Merck, Merck’s Index, p. vi.
8. Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry 3 (1890): 126.
9. Merck, Merck’s Manual, p. 5.
10. Grotzinger, review of Merck Index.
11. Chemical Rubber Company, Handbook, p. 3.
12. Chemical Rubber Company, Handbook, p. 8.
13. Chemical Rubber Company, Handbook, p. 3.
14. Davis and Schmidt, Guide to Information Sources, p. 88.
15. Powell, Handbooks and Tables.
16. Thorndike, “L’Encyclopédie and the History of Science,” p. 361.
CHAPTER 23½: AT NO EXTRA COST!
1. Dille, “The Dictionary in Abstract,” p. 198.
2. Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, p. 251.
3. See Béjoint, Lexicography of English, p. 2.
4. Watts, “Encyclopédie Méthodique,” p. 356.
5. Oldenburg, “Consummate Consumer.”
6. Louise Cook, Associated Press story, May 26, 1978; see also Stockwell, History of Information Storage and Retrieval p. 133.
7. Kogan, Great EB, p. 303.
8. Kogan, Great EB, p. 300.
9. Kogan, Great EB, p. 306.
10. Kogan, Great EB, p. 303.
11. Oldenburg, “Consummate Consumer.”
12. LaBelle, “Salesman Must Say.”
13. Berger, “What’s New in Encyclopedias.”
14. “Out of Bounds.”
CHAPTER 24: FULL AND AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION
1. Kafker, “William Smellie’s Edition,” p. 172.
2. Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. iii.
3. “J. K.,” “Catholics and the New ‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ ” pp. 202–3; Keogil, “‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ and the History of the Church,” pp. 377, 381.
4. Catholic Encyclopedia, 1:v.
5. Catholic Encyclopedia, 1:v–vi.
6. Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. iv.
7. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 29.
8. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 18.
9. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” pp. 23–24.
10. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 28.
11. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 31.
12. Einbinder, Myth of the Britannica, p. 19.
13. Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 53.
14. Kołakowski, Main Currents, p. 903.
15. “Big Red Book.”
16. Stockwell, History of Information Storage and Retrieval, p. 126.
17. Hirsch, “Culture and Literacy,” pp. 36, 45.
CHAPTER 24½: UNPERSONS
1. See Weinrich, Lethe, p. 33, and Hedrick, History and Silence, pp. 94–95.
2. Weinrich, Lethe, p. 33.
3. Knight, Beria, p. 3.
4. Hedrick, History and Silence, p. 92.
CHAPTER 25: NOTHING SPECIAL
1. Newman, Lounger’s Common-place Book, 1:iii.
2. Olmsted, Getting into Guinness, p. 36.
3. Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”
4. Olmsted, Getting into Guinness, p. 46.
5. Olmsted, Getting into Guinness, p. 47.
6. Whittington, “Unbeatable,” p. 139.
7. http://www.book-of-records.info/1950s.html.
8. See Olmsted, Getting into Guinness, p. 34.
9. Cavendish, “Publication of the Guinness Book.”
10. Hanson, “Harnessing the Guinness Effect,” p. 165.
11. Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”
12. Hanson, “Harnessing the Guinness Effect,” p. 165.
13. Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”
14. Schott’s Original Miscellany, p. 5.
15. McCrum, “God Bless You,” p. 19.
16. Anon., review of Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany.
17. Luce, “Vital Irrelevance.”
18. Gutin, “How Big Is a D-Cup?”
EPILOGUE: THE WORLD’S INFORMATION
1. See Maritain, Dream of Descartes, pp. 13–26.
2. Cottingham, Cambridge Companion, p. 31.
3. Yeo, Encyclopaedic Visions, p. 4.
4. Campbell and Pryce, Library, p. 39.
5. See Collison, Encyclopaedias, p. 2.
6. Stockwell, History of Information Storage and Retrieval, p. 21.
7. Burke, Social History of Knowledge, p. 175.
8. Yeo, “Lost Encyclopedias,” p. 47.
9. Wells, World Brain, p. 11.
10. Smith, Towards a Living Encyclopædia, p. 28.
11. See Yeo, “Lost Encyclopedias,” p. 62.
12. Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide, p. 7.
13. Lih, Wikipedia Revolution, p. xv.
14. Lih, Wikipedia Revolution, p. 14.
15. Lih, Wikipedia Revolution, p. 112.
16. Schiff, “Know It All.”
17. Baker, “Google’s Earth.”
18. Baker, “Charms of Wikipedia.”
19. Jaschick, “Stand against Wikipedia.”
20. Dyson, “How We Know,” p. 10.
INDEX
“The A.B.C.” (Le Maire), here
Académie Française, here, here, here
Accademia della Crusca, here, here, here, here, here
Adelung, Johann Christoph, here
Africana (Appiah and Gates), here
Alexander the Great, here
Alexandria, Library of, here, here, here, here
alphabet, development of, here
alphabetization. See also classification
alternative schemes for, here
Chinese characters and, here, here
early reference works and, here, here, here
electronic reference works and, here
history of, here
practical issues in, here, here
Amarakosha, here
Amarasimha, here
Amenemope, here
An American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), here, here, here
Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical (Gray and Carter), here, here
Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (Varro), here
Apianus, Petrus, here
Apollonius the Sophist, here
Approaching Elegance. See Erya (Erh-ya)
Aquinas, Thomas, here
Ardens, Radulfus, here
Aristophanes of Byzantium, here
Aristotle, here, here, here, here
Aristotle’s Master-Piece, here
Arithmetica logarithmica (Briggs), here
Ash, John, here
The Assyrian Dictionary, here
Astronomia instaurata progymnasmata (Brahe), here
astronomy
history of, here
logarithm tables in, here
star and planetary tables, here
star maps, here
stars naming system, here
As We May Think (Bush), here
Átaktoi glôssai (Philitas of Cos), here, here
Atlas (Mercator), here
Atlas coelestis (Flamsteed), here
Avicenna, here
Babylonia, legal code of, here, here
Bacon, Francis, here, here
Bailey, Nathan, here
Baker, Nicholson, here, here
Balbus, Johannes, here
Bald, here, here
Bartlett, John, here, here
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, here
Bartolomeo of San Concordio, here
The Basilica, here
Bayer, Johann, here, here
Bayle, Pierre, here, here, here
Beauties of Shakespear (Dodd), here
Beaver, Sir Hugh, here
Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Information, here
Bell, Andrew, here
Betham, Matilda, here
Bible
Babylonian law and, here
and book, history of, here
on information overload, here, here
selection of books for, here
works on, here, here, here
Bibliotheca universalis (Gesner), here
Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women (Betham), here
Black’s Law Dictionary, here
Blount, Thomas, here, here, here
Bol’shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia, here, here
book(s), history of, here, here
Book of Healing (Bald), here, here
Boston Buriensis, here
Boswell, James, here, here, here
Bradshaw’s Railway Time Tables, here
Brahe, Tycho, here, here, here
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, here
Briggs, Henry, here
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, here
Browne, Thomas, here
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, here
Bukharin, Nikolai, here, here, here
Burchfield, Robert, here
Burnell, Arthur Coke, here
Bush, Vannevar, here
Byzantine Empire, law code of, here
Callimachus, here
Calmet, Antoine Augustin, here
Canon of Medicine (Avicenna), here
Capellanus, Andreas, here
Carroll, Lewis, here, here
Carter, Henry Vandyke, here, here, here
Cartwright, Samuel, here
Cassiodorus, Flavius Marcus Aurelius, here, here, here, here
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum, here
Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae (Boston Buriensis), here
Catholic Church. See Index librorum prohibitorum
The Catholic Encyclopedia, here
Catholicon (Balbus), here
Cato the Censor, here, here