Lexicon balatronicum. A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence / Compiled originally by Captain Grose ; and now considerably altered and enlarged, with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the Whip Club. Assisted by Hell-Fire Dick. And James Gordon, Esqrs. of Cambridge, and William Soames, Esq. of the Hon. Society of Newman's Hotel.

  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.
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Lexicon balatronicum. A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence / Compiled originally by Captain Grose ; and now considerably altered and enlarged, with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the Whip Club. Assisted by Hell-Fire Dick. And James Gordon, Esqrs. of Cambridge, and William Soames, Esq. of the Hon. Society of Newman's Hotel. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. English

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London : Printed for C. Chappel ..., 1811.

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viii, 224 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : frontispiece (portrait), 1 illustration ; (8vo)

References note

BM 93:87-88
NUC pre-1956 220:6
Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank no. 486
Alston, R.C. Engl. language IX, 66, no. 324

Notes

Edited by Hewson Clarke; front. by George Cruikshank
Originally published as: A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue (London : S. Hooper, 1785)
Copy 1 Note: Hand-bill, advertising 'Tom & Jerry', with glossary of cant phrases, bound in at end.

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