Authority Cited: Phillips [Edward]
Author name and dates: Edward Phillips (1630-1696)
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; nephew of Milton but Royalist bias; specialists assisted in dictionary (multiple ed.); SJ used def. for obscure words
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 20 cites as Phillips's (or Philips's) World of Words, in the 1755 Dict., between bugle and coparseny; other cites from the title below are to Phillips or Philips; about 37 total cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two cites by name identified in Dict. vol. 2. For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. de Vries counts 39 Philips cites, all but two in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. de Vries concludes that SJ used either the 1706 or 1720 Kersey editions of Philips.]
Author name and dates: Edward Phillips (1630-1696)
BKG Bio-tweet: Author; nephew of Milton but Royalist bias; specialists assisted in dictionary (multiple ed.); SJ used def. for obscure words
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 20 cites as Phillips's (or Philips's) World of Words, in the 1755 Dict., between bugle and coparseny; other cites from the title below are to Phillips or Philips; about 37 total cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two cites by name identified in Dict. vol. 2. For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. de Vries counts 39 Philips cites, all but two in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. de Vries concludes that SJ used either the 1706 or 1720 Kersey editions of Philips.]
- The New World of Words, or a General English Dictionary, Compiled by Edward Phillips, Gent.. The Sixth Edition, Revised Corrected, Improved with the addition of near Twenty Thousand Words, from the best authors, domestic and foreign, that treat of the several subjects, by J. K. Philobibl. 1706, London, Printed for J Phillips, at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard; D Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-Lane, in Fleet-street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Churchyard. (1658,..,1678, 1696, 1706 (Kersey), 1720 (Kersey)); bugle;...coparseny; crab; cruset; demain; deplumation; depriment; deprivation; deputy; dipping; duplicate; gilder; King at Arms; parapegm; pickle;
- Phillips (no work cited)