Coulson J., Carr C.T., Hutchinson Lucy, Eagle Dorothy. Oxford Illustrated Dictionary 1/2

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962, Reprinted with corrections and addenda 1970 — XVI + 976 p. — ISBN10: 0198611110, ISBN13: 978-0198611110, ASIN: B0013BA1FYAccording to the distinction used by H. W. Fowler in the preface to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a dictionary normally takes the uses of words and phrases as such for its subject-matter and is concerned with giving information about the things for which these words and phrases stand only so far as correct use of the words depends upon knowledge of the things. In an encyclopaedia, on the other hand, the emphasis will be much more on the nature of the things for which the words and phrases stand. This book attempts to combine in a form that can be handled conveniently the essential features of dictionary and encyclopaedia. Where things are more easily explained by pictures or diagrams than by words, illustration has been used to help out definition. As the dictionary thus becomes the first Oxford English dictionary to make use of illustration (apart from the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes where illustration is used for a different purpose and in a different way), it has been given a title which distinguishes it from the rest of the family by its most conspicuous feature.