The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Folio Society edition

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Simon Winchester
Edition year 2014
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Tim Laing
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 232
Dimensions 9½ × 6¼ in

Edition details

The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester. Introduced by Will Self. Frontispiece and 12 pages of colour and black & white plates. Printed endpapers. Bound in buckram, blocked with a design by Tim Laing. 232pp. 9½x6¼in.

About the book

Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne tells the remarkable true story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. One of its most prolific contributors, Dr W. Minor, was an American surgeon confined in a psychiatric hospital after committing murder. The book explores the unlikely friendship between Minor and dictionary editor James Murray and the extraordinary collaborative effort behind the dictionary.

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