Sarah Langenberg

First Edition published circa 1928

The idea for it stemmed from a collection of papers published by Richard Chenevix Trench, entitled "On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionary," which provoked thought into making a coherent, more unified vocabulary.

Major contributors to the Dictionary were, Herbert Coleridge, Frederick Furnivall (who founded the Early English Text Society), and William Alexander Craigie

The official title of "Oxford English Dictionary" was included on the section from "deceit" through "deject" on January 1st, 1895

The dictionary was dedicated to Queen Victoria

This first edition had 10 volumes

The first copies were presented to King George V and to Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States at the time