baret's

Updated: May 16, 2025

Baret's Alvearie of 1573 has been justly styled 'one of the most quaint and charming of all the early Dictionaries. In his 'Prefatory Address to the Reader' the author tells, in fine Elizabethan prose, both how his book came into existence, and why he gave it its curious name:

James Augustus Henry Murray - The evolution of English lexicography