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[HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN.] The slang dictionary; or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced.
London, John Camden Hotten, 1864. "Ninth thousand," 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 305, [1], -[306], 5 ads, [15] ads; frontispiece showing "A Cadger's Map of a Begging District," vignette title page; worn and bumped at extremities with hinges tender, joints beginning to crack, and spine ends fraying; a good copy in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt vignettes stamped on front cover. One of the most famous and esteemed dictionaries of slang ever published. This new edition includes nearly 10,000 words, according to the preface, as well as the prefaces to the first and second editions.
Offered for US$ 62.50 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29246