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But that lineage is wrong: Robert Cawdrey published his Table Alphabeticall in 1604, 149 years before Johnson’s tome, and it is now republished here for the first time in over 350 years.
Early English dictionaries. Before Samuel Johnson 's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years.
The first purely English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabetical (1604), treating some 3,000 words. In 1746–47 Samuel Johnson undertook the most ambitious English dictionary to that time, a list of 43,500 words.
A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
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Apr 18, 2008 · This included a dictionary, first published in 1604. The period over which Cawdrey (1537?‐1604?) compiled this dictionary was one of the most inventive in the history of the English language, with writers like Shakespeare and Spenser and Sidney at work.
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The first true English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey's "A Table Alphabeticall," published in 1604. Cawdrey's book may be seen as the result of a number of dramatic events that had occurred in the century and a quarter that preceeded it, including the widespread use of the Gutenberg press.
Harvard University. THE FIRST ENGLISH DICTIONARY, CAWDREY'S TABLE ALPHABETICALL. Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall of 1604,1 the first diction- ary of the English language, has been previously discussed as an outgrowth of the Renaissance controversy on the influx of foreign words into the English vocabulary.
