Editions
The dictionary was first published in 1948; the current edition is the eighth. It is now published on paper and as a CD-ROM (ISBN 0-19-479900-X); the latter includes many etymologies. The following editions exist:
- First edition first published in 1948 (12 impressions)
- Second edition first published in 1963 (19 impressions)
- Third edition first published in 1974 (28 impressions)
- Fourth edition first published in 1989 (50 impressions)
- Fifth edition first published in 1995 (65 impressions)
- Sixth edition first published in 2000 (117 impressions)
- Seventh edition first published in 2005
- Eighth edition first published in 2010
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)