The Surgeon Of Crowthorne: A Tale Of Murder, Madness And The Love Of Words (1st edition) by Simon Winchester. Viking Press, 1998

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The story of the editor of the first Oxford English Dictionary James Murray and one of his most prolific contributors W. C. Minor. Despite many invitation to visit Oxford in gratitutude Minor kept delining to come. So Murray eventually travlled to Crowthorne to visit him and was astonished to discover that Minor, an American Civil War veteran was incarcerated as a criminal lunatic in Broadmoor Asylum for murder!

 

Mint condition first edition as new.

 

Publisher: Viking Press, 1998

ISBN: 0 670 87862 6

 

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