OED first edition

[Kathleen E. Miller]

At 02:43 PM 10/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
> From the review of the OED2 CD-ROM in the December 1993 _Byte_ magazine, page
>49 column 2:
>
>"The Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, was first printed as 125 separate
>volumes, from 1884 to 1928."
>
>No wonder they decided to go to CD-ROM.
>
>      - Jim Landau

Is that true? - in my (well his) copy - the A volume is dated 1888 and the
V-Z 1928 and there's only 20 of them + a Supplement and Bibliography.

Katy



Kathleen E. Miller
Research Assistant to William Safire
The New York Times