A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Language by John Camden Hotten

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Language by John Camden Hotten 1859

Book Condition: Fair - Brown cloth, gold gilt lettering to spine. Top quarter inch of binding torn almost loose from spine edge. Small pale spot to lower front cover. Binding cracked at half-title. 4 of 5 binding strings broken at pages 32/33, held together only at bottom binding string.

Authors: John Camden Hotten ((Antiquarian Bookseller))

Edition: First edition

Publisher: John Camden Hotten

Location: London

Date: 1859

Features: Original brown pebble-patterned cloth, spine stamped gilt, front panel emblem and ruling in blind. Frontispiece map. 160pp + [2] ads. Full title: "A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, used at the present day in the streets of London; the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the dens of St. Giles; and the palaces of St. James. Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language from the time of Henry VIII . With glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers and the patterers. By a London Antiquary."

HCS12181-1