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Contains over 163,000 words, with combinations and idiomatic phrases. Words and meanings are set out to reveal their chronological sequence of development since the days of King Alfred. Obsolete, archaic and dialectal uses are included, as well as modern technical and scientific words.
ISBN: 0198611269
Pages: 2672
Hardcovers with dustjacket
Oxford University Press, 1980
Books: both vols. solid/tightly bound; Ink gift and ownership inscription in Vol I and ownership inscription in Vol II; edges of pages mildly browning; fancy prelims creased; main body of both; Vol II has mild historical water damage/spill but doesn't affect readability; both volumes clean barring the inscriptions; both DJs are worn at the edges, rubbed and have small tears; sticky tape residueon both volumes where DJ was pasted down
B35