The present paper brings to the fore some issues which emerged during my work on a dictionary of metalexicography which was compiled in conjunction with a team of scholars from several Polish universities. My part of the project was to describe dictionary types in line with the established lexicographical typology. More exactly, out of 100 names of dictionary types encountered in metalexicographical discourse, that is, both the well-known types (e.g., the monolingual, bilingual or multilingual dictionary) as well as the lesser-known ones (e.g., the combinatory, morphological or rhyming dictionary), I was asked to deal with 80.