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(Cant Dictionary)

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

12mo (172 x 108 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 repaired along bottom margin with some losses to the caption and credit line. Rebound in half red morocco over cloth, brown endpapers, spine lettered gilt; joints lightly rubbed.

First and only edition of a rather scarce title.

REFERENCE:

Cohn 29

PROVENANCE:

Marshall D. Landis (bookplate on front pastedown)