WHAT IS AN INDEX?
Reading edition
A FEW NOTES ON INDEXES AND INDEXERS.
BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
HON. SEC. OF THE INDEX SOCIETY, AND TREASURER OF THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY.
“I for my part venerate the inventor of Indexes; and I know not to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, who was the first great anatomiser of the human body, or to that unknown labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries of a book.”—Isaac Disraeli, Literary Miscellanies.
“I magnify mine office.”
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SECOND EDITION.
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