Introduction -- Dictionary History -- Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage -- Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS 0.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary? -- Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record -- Author's Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries -- An Analysis of a Seventeenth Century Conceptual Dictionary with an Alphabetical List of Entries and a Network Definition Structure: John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's An Alphabetical Dictionary (1668) -- Text and Meaning in Richardson's Dictionary -- An Autodidact's Lexicon: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language (1775) -- The Third Edition of Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Bookseller's Hackwork or Posthumous Masterpiece? -- Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed -- From Incipit to Iconophor -- The History of a Multi-dialectal Catalan Dictionary: the Diccionari Català-Valencia-Balear -- Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in China -- Historical Dictionaries -- Polysemy and the Dictionary of Old English -- Aspects of Polysemy in the Middle English Dictionary -- Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the Eighteenth Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English -- Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in the Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Citations in the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal -- Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare's Informal English -- Index.