This volume is a collection of papers from the 1st International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology at the University of Leicester in 2002. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scholars and academics from around the world working as scholars and editors on historical dictionaries or as practising lexicographers. The papers are, accordingly, arranged in two sections, reflecting the distinction between those individuals working on the historical development of dictionaries and those considering the lexicological problems and challenges facing the lexicographer in attempting to represent as fully and justly as possible historical forms of the English language.

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Contents: John Considine, Du Cange: Lexicography and the Medieval Heritage. - Reiko Takeda, Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.5.4: A 15th Century Pedagogical Dictionary? - Ian Lancashire, Lexicography in the Early Modern Period: the Manuscript Record. - Olga Karpova, Author's Lexicography with Special Reference to Shakespeare Dictionaries. - Natascia Leonardi, An Analysis of a 17th Century Conceptual Dictionary: John Wilkins' and William Lloyd's »An Alphabetical Dictionary«. - Rowena Fowler, Text and Meaning in Richardson's Dictionary. - Joan Beal, An Autodidact's Lexicon: Thomas Spence's »Grand Repository of the English Language«. - Julie Coleman, The 3rd Edition of Grose's »Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue«. - Werner Hüllen, Roget's Thesaurus, deconstructed. - Thora van Male, From Incipit to Iconophor. - Maria Pilar-Perea, The History of the »Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear«. - Gregory James, Culture and the Dictionary: Evidence from the 1st European Lexicographical Work in China. - Antonette diPaolo Healey, Polysemy and the DOE. - Robert E. Lewis, Aspects of Polysemy in the MED. - Eric Stanley, Polysemy and Synonymy and how these Concepts were Understood from the 18th Century onwards in Treatises, and Applied in Dictionaries of English. - Tania Styles, Culinary Exchanges: an Investigation of the Etymologies of some Loanwords in OED3. - Marijke Mooijaart, Citations in the »Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal«. - Norman Blake, Ordering a Historical Dictionary: the Example of Shakespeare's Informal English.