The scoundrel's dictionary, or an explanation of the cant words used

by the thieves, house-breakers, street-robbers and pick-pockets about town. To which is prefixed, some curious dissertations

$15,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: for J. Brownnell, 1754. First and only edition. 8vo, pp. 32; 19th century half red morocco, gilt-lettered spine, new blue cloth folding box with leather label. The Huth - Slater - Brett-Smith copy, with the Huth bookplate. Despite the romantic framing story provided on the title-page, the text is largely derived from Shirley's The Triumph of Wit 1688 , and the cant entries in B.E.'s A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew

• Binding: Leather

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