Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer.[1][2] He was the author of several dictionaries, including his Universal Etymological Dictionary, which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1730 and 1736) was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his Dictionary of the English Language (1755).[3][4][5]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (1908). "Nathan Bailey". The Dictionary of National Biography (2 ed.). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Starnes, De Witt T.; Noyes, Gertrude (1946). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press. pp. 98–125.
- ^ Green, Jonathan (1996). Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made. New York: Henry Holt & Co. pp. 226–286.
- ^ Drabble, Margaret (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 59.