You Could Look It Up (75 page)

10.
  See Collison,
History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries
, pp. 79–88; Hartmann,
History of Lexicography
, pp. 13–14; and Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, chap. 3.

11.
  See Stein,
English Dictionary
; Starnes and Noyes,
English Dictionary
; and Considine,
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
, pp. 156–202.

12.
  See Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, chap. 6.

13.
  Spingarn,
Critical Essays
, 2:328 and 311; Hume, “Of Liberty and Despotism,” in
Essays
, p. 179; Warburton, preface, 1:clxii.

14.
  Boswell,
Life
, 1:186.

15.
  Johnson,
Works
, 18:87–88.

16.
  Johnson,
Works
, 18:105.

17.
  Boswell,
Life
, 1:300.

18.
  Johnson,
Works
, 18:105, 102.

CHAPTER 10
½: OF GHOSTS AND MOUNTWEAZELS

1.
  Skeat, “Report upon ‘Ghost-Words,’ ” p. 352.

2.
  Skeat, “Report upon ‘Ghost-Words,’ ” pp. 352–53.

3.
  Gove, “History of ‘Dord’,” pp. 136–38.

4.
  Liesemer, “Scherzeinträge in Lexika.”

5.
  Liesemer, “Scherzeinträge in Lexika.”

6.
  Jacobs,
Know It All
, p. 128.

7.
  Alford, “Not a Word.”

8.
  Nester’s Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co., No. 90
CV
1086, 796 F.Supp. 729 (1992).

CHAPTER 11
: THE WAY OF FAITH

1.
  Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a1
r
.

2.
  Merbecke,
Concordance
, sig. aii
v
.

3.
  Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a1
r
.

4.
  Olivier,
Alexander the Corrector
, p. 57.

5.
  Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a2
v
.

CHAPTER 11
½: WHO’S WHO AND WHAT’S WHAT

1.
  Landau,
Dictionaries
, p. 87.

2.
  
http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/words_in.htm
.

3.
  Stamper, “Dear Merriam Webster.”

CHAPTER 12
: EROTIC RECREATIONS

1.
  
Song of Solomon
4:1–5.

2.
  “Kama Sutra,” episode of the podcast
In Our Time
, February 2, 2012.

3.
  Phillips,
Mysteries of Love & Eloquence
, sig. A6
v
.

4.
  See Fissell, “Making a Masterpiece,” p. 59.

5.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A3
r
, p. 1.

6.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 98–99.

7.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A4
v
.

8.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 6, 10, 9.

9.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A4
r
, p. 1.

10.
  
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 2, 91, 23, 109.

11.
  Clark, “Female Sexuality,” p. 66.

12.
  Fissell, “Making a Masterpiece,” pp. 60–61.

13.
  Slade,
Pornography and Sexual Representation
, 1:40.

14.
  Joyce,
Ulysses
, pp. 193, 635.

15.
  See
http://huntingtonblogs.org/2015/04/aristotles-masterpiece/
.

16.
  Rubenhold makes the case for Derrick’s involvement, though Freeman replies that “there is no evidence firmly associating Derrick” with the pamphlet (“Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 431).

17.
  Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 357.

18.
  Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 371.

19.
  Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 425.

20.
  Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 358.

21.
  Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” pp. 423–33, 446, 455.

22.
  Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 423.

23.
  Krafft-Ebing,
Psychopathia Sexualis
, p. v.

CHAPTER 12
½: THE BOYS’ CLUB

1.
  Blount,
Glossographia
, sig. A5
v
.

2.
  N.H.,
Ladies Dictionary
, sig. A2
v
.

3.
  N.H.,
Ladies Dictionary
, sig. A2
r
.

4.
  Sears,
Female’s Encyclopædia
, p. 276.

5.
  Sears,
Female’s Encyclopædia
, p. 213.

6.
  Betham,
Biographical Dictionary
, p. v.

7.
  Morozov, “Edit This Page.”

CHAPTER 13
: COLLECTING KNOWLEDGE INTO THE SMALLEST AREAS

1.
  Anon, Review of
The English Cyclopædia
, p. 191. Zedler’s work influenced the
Encyclopédie
: see Lough,
Encyclopédie
, p. 5.

2.
  Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 123.

3.
  Sheldon, “Pierre Bayle,” p. 385.

4.
  See Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 50.

5.
  Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 98.

6.
  Aycock, “Lord Byron and Bayle’s ‘Dictionary,’ ” p. 143.

7.
  Koning, “Onward and Upward with the Arts,” p. 67.

8.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, pp. xiii, xv.

9.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. xxv.

10.
  Manguel,
Library at Night
, p. 84.

11.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. xxxii.

12.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 40.

13.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 47.

14.
  Schwab,
Inventory of Diderot
, pp. 21, 36.

15.
  Lough,
Encyclopédie
, p. 1.

16.
  D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 72.

17.
  Koning, “Onward and Upward,” p. 67.

18.
  Koning, “Onward and Upward,” p. 67. On
droit naturel
,
autorité politique
, and related entries, see Lough,
Encyclopédie
, chap. 8, and Blom,
Encyclopédie
, pp. 145–46, 171.

19.
  Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 110.

20.
  See Kafker and Loveland,
Early “Britannica,”
pp. 6–7; Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 9.

21.
  Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 148;
Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, a Work, Intitled, Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Composed in the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems
(Edinburgh, 1768).

22.
  Kerr,
Memoirs
, 1:362–63; Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 10; Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 150.

23.
  Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 151.

24.
  
Encyclopædia Britannica
, 1st ed., p. v.

25.
  Kerr,
Memoirs of … William Smellie
, 1:63.

26.
  Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” pp. 170–71.

27.
  Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 175.

28.
  Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 180.

29.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 50.

CHAPTER 13
½: DICTIONARY OR ENCYCLOPEDIA?

1.
  Morton,
Story of Webster’s Third
, p. 6.

CHAPTER 14
: OF REDHEADS AND BABUS

1.
  Berrera,
Abecedario
.

2.
  See Burns,
Science in the Enlightenment
, p. 145.

3.
  Cullen,
History of Japan
, p. 131.

4.
  Nagashima, “Bilingual Lexicography with Japanese,” p. 3114.

5.
  Cullen,
History of Japan
, p. 132.

6.
  Yule,
Memoir
, p. 41.

7.
  See, for instance,
Traveller’s Library
, p. 244.

8.
  
Athenæum
3062 (July 3, 1886): 7.

9.
  Campion, “Hobson-Jobson.”

10.
  Reddy, “Ghazipur and Patna Opium Factories,” p. 61.

11.
  Rushdie, “Hobson-Jobson.”

12.
  Livingstone, “How We Got Pukka.”

CHAPTER 14
½: A SMALL ARMY

1.
  Van Doren, “Idea of an Encyclopedia,” p. 25.

2.
  Kafker, “William Smellie’s Edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
,” in Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 149.

3.
  
New International Encyclopædia
, s.v. encyclopædia.

CHAPTER 15
: KILLING TIME

1.
  Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, p. iii.

2.
  Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, pp. 4, 11, 16.

3.
  Hoyle,
Hoyle’s Games Improved
, p. 154.

4.
  Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 46.

5.
  Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 71.

6.
  Hoyle,
Essay
, pp. 72–73.

7.
  Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 73.

8.
  Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, title page.

9.
  Hoyle,
Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon
, title page.

10.
  
Humours of Whist
, p. 5.

11.
  Fielding,
Tom Jones
, part 13, chap. 5.

12.
  Johnson,
Works
, 3:81, 85.

13.
  The phrase appears in
Walker’s Hibernian Magazine
for 1786.

14.
  Brown,
Bath
, 2:187.

15.
  
Englishman in Paris
, 1:147.

16.
  Chambers,
Book of Days
, 2:282.

17.
  Hoyle,
Hoyle’s Games Improved
, pp. 211, 215.

18.
  Winder,
Little Wonder
, p. 32.

19.
  Quoted in Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 131.

20.
  Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 130.

21.
  Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 126.

22.
  Winder,
Little Wonder
, p. 40.

23.
  Kidd, “Don’t Stop Now Is the Message.”

24.
  Winder,
Little Wonder
, pp. x, xiv.

25.
  Brown, “Stumped No More.”

26.
  Kidd, “150-Year Run.”

CHAPTER 15
½: OUT OF PRINT

1.
  Flanagan, “
RIP
for
OED
.”

2.
  Jacobs, “I Read the Encyclopaedia Britannica.”

3.
  Rosalia, “Students Should Not Abandon Print Research.”

4.
  Ayers, “If You Liked
Britannica
.”

CHAPTER 16
: MONUMENTS OF ERUDITION

1.
  Collison,
History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries
, p. 93; see also Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, pp. 151–57.