The most famous versions of what type of book were produced by Bailey in 1721, Johnson in 1755 and Oxford University from 1884?
Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer. 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). Bailey was a Seventh Day Baptist, admitted 1691 to a congregation in Whitechapel, London. He was probably excluded from the congregation by 1718. Later he had a school at Stepney. William Thomas Whitley attributes to him a degree of LL.D. Bailey, with
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