The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary

Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 42

The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary Text edited by JESSIE COULSON, C. T. CARR, LUCY HUTCHINSON, and DOROTHY EAGLE. Illustrations edited by HELEN MARY PETTER. This is the first illustrated Oxford Dictionary. There are 642 illustrations comprising some 1,700 text-figures depicting works of man and nature. All of them were made or adapted for this book. It is more than a dictionary, for it lays emphasis upon the ‘things’ which words denote. It provides information about spelling, pronunciation, and meaning, and it gives etymologies when they are likely to interest the non-specialist; it also contains many facts usually sought in an encyclopaedia. Special care has been taken with definitions of scientific terms. The “Oxford Illustrated Dictionary” will be welcomed wherever dictionaries or encyclopaedias are used, and especially in library, school, and home. New Zealand retail price 62/6 Oxford University Press Wellington