[SLANG] [KENT, George?] The Modern Flash Dictionary. London: W. Ward?s Bachelor?s Repository of Arts, ca. 1830. Publisher?s blue pictorial wraps bearing an image of ?Joe Downy? reciting ?flash lingo? to a crowd, retained in smooth sprinkled calf ruled in gilt with gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered Morocco title label, with gilt turn-ins. Marbled endsheets, ends stained red. Engraved bookplate. Small 8vo. Boards rubbed, minor spotting internally; very good or better. A compilation based on earlier works of sporting slang, criminal cant, and ?flash phrases now in vogue.? This work includes sixty categories of ?prime coves? (top-class rogues) including criminals of nearly every description.