Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes 1536-1896 . Collected and annotated by..

by John S. Farmer

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London : privately printed for subscribers only, 1896. First edition of the regular issue, 8vo, pp. xv, 1 , 253 i.e.251 ; original shelf-backed grey paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; near fine. Songs, chants, and rhymes and rhymsters of the road, the canting crew in all its grades of hedge-priest, maunder, thief, tramp and trull, harlot, and gentlemen of the road. Farmer, in preparing his celebrated dictionary of slang ran across a number of

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