A New Dictionary Of The Terms Ancient And Modern Of The Canting Crew In Its Several Tribes Of Gypsies

by B E

$12,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed for W. Hawes at the Rose in Ludgate-street, P. Gilbourne at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street, and W. Davis at the Black Bull in Cornhill, n.d., 1698 . First edition of the first separately printed dictionary of slang, unpaginated, collating A⁴, B-M⁸, without the two leaves of ads at the back which are found in some copies; the text lightly spotted but generally a very nice copy in nicely blind-stamped early 19th-century sheep,

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