A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. The third edition, corrected and enlarged

by Francis Grose

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: printed for Hooper & Co. No. 212, High Holborn, facing Bloomsbury Square, 1796. Third edition corrected and enlarged, 8vo; pp. xvi, 236 ; original blue paper-covered boards, sympathetically rebacked in brown paper, new printed paper label on spine; edges worn, but the textblock is clean and the binding is sound. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions, and the transcribed title pages of four earlier dictionaries of slang and cant.

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