207 pages 4 unnumbered pages of plates. : portraits ; 21 cm
Summary
"One of the keenest volunteers in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a W C Minor. His refusal to go to Oxford to receive his congratulations led to the editor going to meet him in Berkshire, where he found that Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder." - product description
Notes
U.K. edition. Published in the U.S. as: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary