The Slang Dictionary Or The Vulgar Words Street Phrases An Fast Expressions Of High And Low Society

by John Camden Hotten

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. Large paper edition limited to 100 copies, 4to, interleaved throughout; pp. xxi- xxiv , 305, 5 ads ; frontispiece map, illus. in text; extremities rubbed, small crack at head of spine, else good or better in original red paper-covered boards backed in green morocco gilt, t.e.g. A work three times the size of the first edition which was published in 1859. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions, and a 64-p.

• Binding: Leather

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