An English Expositor: Teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language [1st ed. 1616.]

I[ohn] B[ullokar]

An English Expositor: Teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language [1st ed. 1616.]

London

J.L.

1656

5th ed. 

In his Expositor, Bullokar borrowed from various sources, including Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall, which led to accusations of plagiarism. But he advanced the category of hard-word dictionaries that would dominate the 17th century. He nearly doubled Cawdrey’s headword count, his definitions were more expansive, and he was the first English lexicographer to mark archaisms (using an asterisk). The English Expositor was durable: new editions appeared into the late 18th century, with a “19th edition” in 1775. 

Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 11