Lexicon Balatronicum A Dictionary Of Buckish Slang University Wit And Pickpocket Eloquence

by Francis Grose

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First edition

First edition thus fourth overall, originally published as Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785 . 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter black calf and marbled boards. Some rubbing. Very good plus. Vancil, p. 103; O'Neill G-43. Item #319351 Francis Grose 1731-1791 was the lexicographer of the low life: his dictionary of vulgar and slang words, which appeared under several different titles, was the

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