Author: Grose, [Francis; Clarke, Hewson; Cruikshank, George
Title: Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. Compiled Originally by Captain Grose. And Now Considerably Altered and Enlarged, with the Modern Changes and Improvements, by a Member of the Whip Club. Assisted by Hell-Fire Dick, and James Gordon, Esqrs. Of Cambridge ; and William Soames, Esq. Of the Hon. Society of Newman's Hotel
Description: London, Printed for C. Chappel, 1811. Full tree calf, red morocco label. viii, Unpaged [224 pp.]. 8vo. Originally published as: A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue (London : S. Hooper, 1785). Provenance: Bookplate of Anne and Fernand Renier. Cohn 486. Lacking the frontispiece as common, front board detached. rare tender and worn at joint, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, free front end-paper detached top third lacking, lower two thirds with notations in pencil reviewing the book, light foxing on endpapers else clean contents; overall still good.

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