The Ricky Jay Collection Part III
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Lot 441
[SLANG]. Group of 5 books on slang and cant. Including: [BA...
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[SLANG]. Group of 5 books on slang and cant. Including: [BADCOCK, John (?Jon Bee,? pseudo.]. Slang. A Dictionary of The Turf, The Ring, The Chase, The Pit, of Bon Ton, and the Varieties of Life. London: T. Hughes, 1823. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Half morocco, gilt, edges sprinkled red. ? MATSELL, George. Vocabulum; or the Rogue?s Lexicon. New York: George Matsell, 1859. FIRST EDITION. 16mo. Original cloth (small chip at top of spine; front hinge cracked). ? LUTHER, Martin (ed). The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars: With a Vocabulary of Their Language. Edited by Martin Luther in the Year 1528. London: John Camden Hotten, 1860. Small square 4to. Quarter morocco, boards. ? MAURER, David. Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with their Behavior Pattern. American Dialect Society, 1955. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Maurer on the title page. ? MILES, W.A. Poverty, Mendicity, and Crime;?to which is added a Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language. London: Shaw and Sons, 1839. 8vo. Original cloth, title in gilt. Condition generally very good.
