Grose's classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. Revised and corrected, with the addition of numerous slang phrases …

by Pierce Egan by Francis Grose

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: printed for the editor, 1823. First Egan edition, 8vo, woodcut portrait frontispiece of Grose, pp. iii -xl, 256 ; collating B-Q8 R4; original pebble-grain green cloth an early publisher's cloth binding , paper label on spine; very slight rubbing of the label, but generally a fine copy of an important and entertaining edition. Includes Prefaces to the first and second editions, and facsimile title pages to earlier works in the genre that Grose

• Binding: Hardcover

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