http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/ 2026-04-19T04:03:58+00:00 http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/ http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/lib/tpl/arctic/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-02-09T15:22:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=background&rev=1675956165&do=diff Walker’s Dictionary: Background Information 1. A short biography of John Walker, actor, philologist and lexicographer John Walker was born at Friern Barnet, in the county of Middlesex, on the 18th March 1732. Brought up by his mother, he was ‘instructed in trade’, but when she died, John being still young, he went on the stage, at first with provincial companies, but later at Drury Lane, where he worked under Garrick. This familiarity with actors and the world of the stage is very apparent i… text/html 2025-03-07T10:30:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=bibliography&rev=1741343443&do=diff Bibliography In 1791 * London, 4to, 1st Edition; GGJ & J Robinson & T Cadell ABCCoIAMNT In 1794 * Dublin, 8vo, Another edition; P Wogan & W Jones ABCCoNOCT Also referred to as 1st Irish, while Sevin Seydi’s catalogue has: ‘Counting two Dublin piracies of the first edition.’ My copy does not have 'Another Edition', and may therefore be the original printing, preceding this one and making these two Seydi's 'two piracies'. text/html 2009-08-05T19:51:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=caxon&rev=1249498300&do=diff A Chart showing the words in the Caxton Addenda and their appearance in other editions Initial letters indicate the Edition in which the words appear apart from Nuttall where the date of issue is given. For BATTOLOGY and PANSOPHY only the indicated alternates appear in certain editions. text/html 2009-10-05T18:56:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=contact&rev=1254765385&do=diff Contact Me If you have any additions, comments, criticisms, questions or suggestions, please get in touch with me, Peter Taylor. text/html 2009-09-02T12:11:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=elocution&rev=1251889917&do=diff Elocution Walker The original article, by Rita Ranson, Université du Havre, is entitled «ELOCUTION WALKER» OU LA RÉUSSITE D’UN CATHOLIQUE dans l’Angleterre des lumières and can be found on www.cercles.com/n4/ranson.pdf, with all the footnotes. The translation is mine, together with any errors. Please feel free to point them out. text/html 2009-08-02T23:26:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=home&rev=1249251999&do=diff John Walker (1732-1807) text/html 2016-05-29T11:32:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=intro&rev=1464517943&do=diff Introduction to the Bibliography John Walker published his Critical Pronouncing Dictionary in 1791 and saw it through three more editions before his death in 1807. His mantle then passed to John Murdoch, or so Murdoch claimed, and it was he who in 1809 published the stereotype 5th edition, the first octavo edition, but ‘containing every word that is to be found in Mr Walker’s last improved quarto edition’. This was followed later the same year by the 6th edition, and the series ran on, with o… text/html 2009-08-19T21:52:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=portraits&rev=1250715123&do=diff Walker Portraits Fig.1 Barry's Miniature. For copyright reasons this image cannot presently be displayed. Fig.2 The Key 1797 Fig.3 Johnson & Warner 1813 Fig.4 Silas Andrus 1823 Fig.5 Caxton c.1826 Fig.6 Caxton c.1837 Fig.7 text/html 2009-08-02T13:22:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.johnwalkerdictionaries.co.uk/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1249215760&do=diff Contents Home Page Introduction to the Bibliography Bibliography Background Information Walker Portraits Caxon Chart Elocution Walker Contact Me