Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
Fri, Mar 1, 2019 04:30AM EST
Lot 232
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used in the Present Day in the Streets of London.
Estimate: $200 - $300
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?London Antiquary, (A)? (pseudo.). A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used in the Present Day in the Streets of London. London: John Camden Hotten, 1859. First edition. Original cloth. Half-title, frontis. 8vo. 160pp., [2]pp. ads. Nice clean copy, scarce in the original cloth. Together with the 1869 large paper edition, rebound in library cloth (half-title/frontis. detached), and The Slang Dictionary, Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal (Chatto & Windus, ca. 1878), orig. cloth; and A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (n.p., ca. 1900; facsimile edition), cont. quarter leather.
