Argot and slang a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris..

by Albert Barrere

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham and Co., 1887. First edition, square 8vo, pp. lxxxiv, 495, 1 ; engraved frontis by Godefroy Durand; text in double column; recent black cloth, red morocco label on spine; half-title a little chipped at the edges, else fine in a new binding. Printed in a small but unspecified edition at The Chiswick Press. Entries in French with English equivalents. The frontal matter is extensive, with a list

• Binding: Leather

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