Eric Partridge - Works (selected)

Works (selected)

• A Charm of Words. New York, Macmillan Co., 1961 (copyright 1960)
• A New Testament Word Book: a Glossary. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1940. Republished New York, Books for Libraries Press, 1970. The 1987 republication by the Christian publisher Barbour & Company of Uhricksville, Ohio as The Book of New Testament Word Studies, with copyright claimed by the publisher, appears to be a copyright violation.
• The 'Shaggy Dog' Story. New York, Philosophical Library, 1954
• A Dictionary of the Underworld. London, Macmillan Co., 1949; reprinted with new addenda, New York, Bonanza Books, 1961
• From Sanskrit to Brazil: Vignettes and Essays upon Languages. Hamish Hamilton, 1952. Reprinted 1969 by Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York. ISBN 0-8369-5055-0
• . (1963), The Gentle Art of Lexicography as pursued and experienced by an addict, New York: The Macmillan Company, http://www.archive.org/stream/gentleartoflexic00part#page/n5/mode/2up, retrieved 31 August 2011
• Here, There and Everywhere. Hamish Hamilton.
• Name Into Word. Secker & Warburg
• A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Routledge & Kegan Paul (UK)/Stein and Day (US). First published 1977. 2nd edition 1985. Paperback 1986. e-print 2005 ISBN 0-203-37995-0
• A Dictionary of Clichés. Routledge & Kegan Paul. First published 1940. E-print 2005. ISBN 0-203-37996-9
• A Dictionary of Forces’ Slang.
• A Dictionary of RAF Slang. Michael Joseph, 1945; new edition with an introduction by Russell Ash, Pavilion Books, 1990 ISBN 978-1-85145-526-3
• Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang.
• Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1958). Reprint: Greenwich House, New York, 1983. ISBN 0-517-41425-2. Reprint: Random House Value Publishing(1988)
• A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 1st edition: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1937.

  2nd edition 1938

  3rd edition 1949

  4th edition 1951

  5th edition in two volumes, supplement much enlarged, 1961. Reprinted in 1 vol. 1963. Mary Martin Books. Adelaide, South Australia.

  6th edition 1967

  7th edition 1970

  8th edition London and New York, Routledge, 1984. Paperback reprint 2002

• Shakespeare's Bawdy. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1947)/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1948), Reprint: Routledge (1991) ISBN 0-415-05076-6. Routledge Classics 2001 Hardback ISBN 0-415-25553-8; Paperback ISBN 0-415-25400-0
• Slang Today and Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• A Smaller Slang Dictionary.
• You Have A Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies. First published 1953 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Taylor & Francis e-print 2005. ISBN 0-203-37992-6
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books. Reprint: W. W. Norton & Company (1997) ISBN 0-393-31709-9
• Name This Child. Hamish Hamilton.
• Name Your Child. Evans Bros.
• Eric Partridge In His Own Words. Edited by David Crystal. 1980. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York. ISBN 0-02-528960-8.