The slang dictionary; or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and fast expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced

by John Camden Hotten

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London: John Camden Hotten, 1864. Tenth thousand, 8vo, pp. xxi, 3 , 305, 5 ads , 17 ads; frontispiece map, vignette title page, sm bookseller ticket on front paste down, spine ends frayed and segments of spine are torn with glue repair , spine and edges a bit darkened, otherwise a good copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, and upper cover decorated in gilt. One of the most famous and esteemed dictionaries of slang ever published. This new

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