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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
The set that I've got constitutes two, enormous volumes. Even at that, the type is almost infinitesimally small (with that edition, at least, Oxford furnished a magnifying glass).
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That's not the OED; it's the edition called the "Shorter Oxford Dictionary". I also have it, and it's the most comprehensive Oxford English dictionary still available in print. When the OED was printed (it no longer is), it consisted of 20 volumes, each as large as the two that we own.