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(Cant Dictionary)

George Andrewes. A Dictionary of the Slang and Cant Languages … London: George Smeeton,[1809]

12mo (193 x 110 mm). Handcolored engraved folding frontispiece entitled "The Beggars Carnival" by George Cruikshank, text in double columns, advertisement on verso of terminal leaf for Andrewes's Stranger's Guide; frontispiece offset to title-page and browned with splits to folds and marginal chips, some browning to leaves, a few stray spots. Early half pebble grain morocco and red paper-covered boards; rubbed.

A rare glossary of English sang, with a lively frontispiece by Cruikshank. 

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Cohn 29