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Caught in the web of words : James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English dictionary / K.M. Elisabeth Murray ; with a preface by R.W. Burchfield.

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.

A new English dictionary on historical principles : founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society / edited by James A.H. Murray [and others] Introduction, supplement, and bibliography, by W.A. Craigie, C.T. Onions.

A new English dictionary on historical principles : founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological society / edited by James A.H. Murray ; with the assistance of many scholars and men of science.

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Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915

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A new English dictionary on historical principles : founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society / edited by James A.H. Murray [and others] Introduction, supplement, and bibliography, by W.A. Craigie, C.T. Onions.

A new English dictionary on historical principles : founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological society / edited by James A.H. Murray ; with the assistance of many scholars and men of science.