The subject of this volume is the metalexicographic analysis of German-Polish dictionaries. It draws on seven dictionaries compiled in a period of almost 100 years between 1772 and 1868, discussing them chronologically in accordance with an identical schema for each work: information on the lexicographers, their works and the sources they drew on; analysis of the micro- and macrostructure (lemmatization and arrangement of vocabulary items); grammatical, phonetic and syntagmatic information; equivalence; diasystematic marking; function of the dictionary). Findings are substantiated by copious examples from the dictionaries discussed.