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Pages : 60
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Tom and Jerry ... A musical extravaganza ... founded on Pierce Egan's ... “Life in London.” (Vocabulary of Flash and Cant.).
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Pages : 660
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Catalogue of the Books & Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T. Gilbert
Author: Dublin Public Libraries
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The true history of Tom and Jerry; or, The day and night scenes, of life in London, with a key to the persons and places, together with a vocabulary and glossary of the flash and slang terms, by C. Hindley
Author: Pierce Egan
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565253
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191565253
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.