Dictionaries of Quotations: A Comparative Review
Elaine McPheron
(Senior Assistant Librarian and Head of Bibliographic Instruction for the Oscar A. Silverman Undergraduate Library, SUNY at Buffalo.)
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Abstract
Dictionaries of quotations are one of the more personal categories of reference books as evidenced by the diverse responses of their reviewers. The latest edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was considered “a splendid achievement” by one and “a disaster” by another, while a third introduced his critique with the caution, “It can be said about any such book that its contents will be in‐adequate and its editors presumptuous …”
Citation
McPheron, E. (1984), "Dictionaries of Quotations: A Comparative Review", Reference Services Review, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048878
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1984, MCB UP Limited