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'''Nathan Bailey''' (died 27 June 1742), was an [[England|English]] [[philologist]] and [[lexicography|lexicographer]].<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bailey, Nathan}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Stephen|first1=Leslie|last2=Lee|first2=Sidney|title=The Dictionary of National Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/modictionaryofna14step|date=1908|publisher=Smith, Elder & Co.|location=London|edition=2|chapter=Nathan Bailey}}</ref> He was the author of several dictionaries, including his ''[[An Universal Etymological English Dictionary|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 ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language|Dictionary of the English Language]]'' (1755).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Starnes|first1=De Witt T.|last2=Noyes|first2=Gertrude|title=The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755|url=https://archive.org/details/englishdictionar0000unse_q4m1|url-access=registration|date=1946|publisher=University of North Caroline Press|location=Chapel Hill|pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishdictionar0000unse_q4m1/page/98 98]–125}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=Jonathan|title=Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made|date=1996|publisher=Henry Holt & Co.|location=New York|pages=226–286}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Drabble|first1=Margaret|title=The Oxford Companion to English Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00drab_958|url-access=limited|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00drab_958/page/n74 59]|edition=6}}</ref>
'''Nathan Bailey''' (died 27 June 1742), was an [[England|English]] [[philologist]] and [[lexicography|lexicographer]].<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bailey, Nathan}}</ref> He was the author of the ''Universal Etymological Dictionary'' (1721) a very popular publication and a forerunner of Dr. Johnson's dictionary.<ref>The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th Edition. Edited by Margaret Drabble, Oxford University Press, 2000 Pp59</ref>


==Life==
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Bailey's dictionary was also the basis of English-German dictionaries. These included those edited by [[Theodor Arnold]] (3rd edition, 1761), [[Anton Ernst Klausing]] (8th edition, 1792), and [[Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger]] (11th edition, 1810).<ref name=DNB/>
Bailey's dictionary was also the basis of English-German dictionaries. These included those edited by [[Theodor Arnold]] (3rd edition, 1761), [[Anton Ernst Klausing]] (8th edition, 1792), and [[Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger]] (11th edition, 1810).<ref name=DNB/>


Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726; 'All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated,' 1733, of which a new edition appeared in 1878; 'The Antiquities of London and Westminster,' 1726; 'Dictionarium Domesticum,' 1736; Selections from Ovid and Phædrus; and 'English and Latin Exercises.' In 1883 appeared 'English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the . . . Dictionary of N. Bailey', with an introduction by [[W. E. A. Axon]] (English Dialect Society), giving biographical and bibliographical details.<ref name=DNB/>
Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726; ''All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated'' (1733), of which a new edition appeared in 1878;<ref>Desiderius Erasmus, ''[https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1854 The Colloquies of Erasmus]'', trans. by Nathan Bailey, ed. by E. Johnson, 2 vols (London: Reeves and Turner, 1878).</ref> 'The Antiquities of London and Westminster,' 1726; 'Dictionarium Domesticum,' 1736 (which was also a cookbook on recipes, including [[fried chicken]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Pereira |first=Alyssa |date=22 June 2016 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/The-internet-is-losing-it-over-this-18th-century-8318975.php |title=The internet is obsessing over this 18th century fried chicken recipe |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref>); Selections from Ovid and Phædrus; and 'English and Latin Exercises.' In 1883 appeared 'English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the . . . Dictionary of N. Bailey', with an introduction by [[W. E. A. Axon]] (English Dialect Society), giving biographical and bibliographical details.<ref name=DNB/>


== List of selected works ==
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* {{cite book|last=Bailey|first=Nathan|title=Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: Or, A Dictionary of All Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing.<!--Containing More Particularly the Whole Art of Gardening, viz. Sowing, Setting, Grafting, Transplanting, Salleting, &c. with the Names, Descriptions, and Uses, of All Kinds of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits. The Raising and Ordering of All Manner of Forest and Fruit-trees, and Dwarfs. Agriculture in the Various Parts of It, and the Modern Improvements Made therein. The Gentleman’s Recreation; or the Arts of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Ferreting, Cock-fighting, &c. including (besides the Several Animals) the Tackling, Nets and Different Instruments Used therein. The Breeding, Feeding, and Managing of All Sorts of Cattle, as also of Bees, Poultry, and Singing-birds; with All Their Respective Diseases, and Cures. The Preparing of All Sorts of English Liquors, Common Eatables and Drinkables; with the Several Parts of Country Housewifry. The Digging, Refining, &c. of Minerals; Salt, and Sugar-works; and the Arts of Making Brick, Birdlime, Gunpowder, Shot, &c. Merchandizing, Trading, and Handicraft Terms and Instruments. The Produce, Manufactory, &c. of the Counties of England, and of Foreign Parts. The Ancient Customs, and Natural Rarities of England. Illustrated with Cuts of All Sorts of Nets, Traps, Engines, &c.-->|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiVLAQAAMAAJ|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Nicholson, at the Kings-Arms in Little-Britain|year=1704|oclc=1063071154}}
* {{cite book|last=Bailey|first=Nathan|author-link=Nathan Bailey|title=Dictionarium Britannicum Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O50-AAAAcAAJ|year=1736|publisher=T. Cox|location=London}}
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==Bibliography ==
*Jonathon Green, ''Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made'' (1996)
* Jonathon Green, ''Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made'' (1996)
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For the British trampolinist, see Nathan Bailey (gymnast). For the American-born Canadian restaurateur, see Nat Bailey.

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]

Life[edit]

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.[6]

Works[edit]

Bailey, with John Kersey the younger, was a pioneer of English lexicography, and changed the scope of dictionaries of the language. Greater comprehensivity became the common ambition. Up to the early eighteenth century, English dictionaries had generally focused on "hard words" and their explanation, for example those of Thomas Blount and Edward Phillips in the generation before. With a change of attention, to include more commonplace words and those not of direct interest to scholars, the number of headwords in English dictionaries increased spectacularly.[7] Innovations were in the areas of common words, dialect, technical terms, and vulgarities.[6] Thomas Chatterton, the literary forger, also obtained many sham-antique words from reading Bailey and Kersey.[8]

Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, from its publication in 1721, became the most popular English dictionary of the 18th century, and went through nearly thirty editions.[8] It was a successor to Kersey's A New English Dictionary (1702), and drew on it. A supplementary volume of his dictionary appeared in 1727, and in 1730 a folio edition, the Dictionarium Britannicum[9] containing many technical terms.[8] Bailey had collaborators, for example John Martyn who worked on botanical terms in 1725.[10]

Samuel Johnson made an interleaved copy the foundation of his own Johnson's Dictionary.[8] The 1755 edition of Bailey's dictionary bore the name of Joseph Nicol Scott also; it was published years after Bailey's death, but months only after Johnson's dictionary appeared. Now often known as the "Scott-Bailey" or "Bailey-Scott" dictionary, it contained relatively slight revisions by Scott, but massive plagiarism from Johnson's work. A twentieth-century lexicographer, Philip Babcock Gove, attacked it retrospectively on those grounds.[11] In all, thirty editions of the dictionary appeared, the last at Glasgow in 1802, in reprints and versions by different booksellers.[8]

Bailey's dictionary was also the basis of English-German dictionaries. These included those edited by Theodor Arnold (3rd edition, 1761), Anton Ernst Klausing (8th edition, 1792), and Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger (11th edition, 1810).[8]

Bailey also published a spelling-book in 1726; All the Familiar Colloquies of Erasmus Translated (1733), of which a new edition appeared in 1878;[12] 'The Antiquities of London and Westminster,' 1726; 'Dictionarium Domesticum,' 1736 (which was also a cookbook on recipes, including fried chicken[13]); Selections from Ovid and Phædrus; and 'English and Latin Exercises.' In 1883 appeared 'English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the . . . Dictionary of N. Bailey', with an introduction by W. E. A. Axon (English Dialect Society), giving biographical and bibliographical details.[8]

List of selected works[edit]

  • Bailey, Nathan (1704). Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: Or, A Dictionary of All Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing. London: Printed for J. Nicholson, at the Kings-Arms in Little-Britain. OCLC 1063071154.
  • Bailey, Nathan (1736). Dictionarium Britannicum Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant. London: T. Cox.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bailey, Nathan" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (1908). "Nathan Bailey". The Dictionary of National Biography (2 ed.). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Green, Jonathan (1996). Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made. New York: Henry Holt & Co. pp. 226–286.
  5. ^ Drabble, Margaret (2000). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (6 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 59.
  6. ^ a b Hancher, Michael. "Bailey, Nathaniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1055. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ Green, p. 226.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g "Bailey, Nathan" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  9. ^ 'Dictionarium Britannicum, collected by several hands. The Mathematical part by G. Gordon, the Botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd with many thousand additions by N. Bailey.'
  10. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Martyn, John (1699–1768), botanist, by G. S. Boulger. Published 1893.
  11. ^ Green, p. 235.
  12. ^ Desiderius Erasmus, The Colloquies of Erasmus, trans. by Nathan Bailey, ed. by E. Johnson, 2 vols (London: Reeves and Turner, 1878).
  13. ^ Pereira, Alyssa (22 June 2016). "The internet is obsessing over this 18th century fried chicken recipe". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 June 2016.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Jonathon Green, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (1996)
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