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52-5645 PN6080 2014-930368 Oxford dictionary of quotations, ed. by Elizabeth Knowles. 8th ed. Oxford, 2014. 1,126p index ISBN 9780199668700 cloth, $50.00
The first edition of Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and counted 879 pages long. The 2005 sixth edition had 1,140 (CH, May'05, 42-4958), while the newly released eighth edition offers 1,126 pages. This size comparison represents an addition of 30 percent more material over a span of nearly three-quarters of a century, an indication that the ever-growing quotation...