This book presents the historical lexicography of German, Dutch, and English with a focus factors related to ideological history, professional lexicography, and cultural education. The book begins by addressing societal interest in historical lexicography, and continues with a discussion of dictionary typology and preparatory work with corpora. In the main part of the book, the author undertakes a professional treatment of the common types of lexicographic information, and also furnishes some rarely provided lexicographic material.