Contains a few cant words.
EGAN. Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, with the
addition of numerous Slang Phrases, edited by Pierce Egan, 8vo. 1823
The best edition of Grose, with many additions, including a Life of
this celebrated antiquarian.
EGAN’S (Pierce) Life in London, 2 vols, thick 8vo, _with coloured
plates by Geo. Cruikshank, representing high and low life_. 18—
Contains numerous cant, slang sporting, and vulgar words, supposed by
the author to form the basis of conversation in life, high and low,
in London.
ELWYN’S (Alfred L.) Glossary of supposed _Americanisms_—Vulgar and
Slang Words used in the United States, small 8vo. 1859
GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE, 8vo. N.D.
“In a very early volume of this parent magazine were given a few
pages, by way of sample, of a Slang Vocabulary, then termed Cant. If,
as we suspect, this part of the Magazine fell to the share of Dr.
Johnson, who was then its editor, we have to lament that he did not
proceed with the design.”—_John Bee, in the Introduction to his Slang
Dictionary_, 1825.
GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE, vol. xcii., p. 520.
Mention made of slang.
GLOSSARIES of County Dialects. V.D.
Many of these will repay examination, as they contain cant and slang
words, wrongly inserted as provincial or old terms.
GOLDEN CABINET (The) of Secrets opened for Youth’s delightful Pastime,
in 7 parts, the last being the “City and Country Jester;” with a
Canting Dictionary, by Dr. Surman, 12mo. _London_, N.D. (1730)
Contains some curious woodcuts.
GREENE’S (Robert) Notable Discovery of Coosnage, now daily practised by
sundry lewd persons called Conie-catchers and Crosse biters. Plainly
laying open those pernitious sleights that hath brought many ignorant
men to confusion. Writen for the general benefit of all Gentlemen,
Citizens, Aprentices, Country Farmers, and Yeomen, that may hap to
fall into the company of such coosening companions. With a delightful
discourse of the coosnage of Colliers, 4to, _with woodcuts_. _Printed
by John Wolfe_, 1591
_The first edition._ A copy of another edition, supposed to be
_unique_, is dated 1592. It was sold at the Heber sale.
GREENE’S (Robert) Groundworke of Conny-Catching, the manner of their
PEDLERS’ FRENCH, and the meanes to understand the same, with the
cunning slights of the Conterfeit Cranke. Done by a Justice of the
Peace of great Authoritie, 4to, _with woodcuts_. 1592
Usually enumerated among Greene’s works, but it is only a reprint,
with variations, of _Harman’s Caveat_, and of which Rowland complains
in his Martin Markall. The _second_ and _third_ parts of this curious
work were published in the same year. Two other very rare volumes by
Greene were published—_The Defence of Cony-Catching_, 4to, in 1592,
and THE BLACK BOOKES MESSENGER, in 1595. They both treat on the same
subjects.
GROSE’S (Francis, generally styled _Captain_) Classical Dictionary of
the Vulgar Tongue, 8vo. 178—
The much sought after FIRST EDITION, but containing nothing, as far
as I have examined, which is not to be found in the _second_ and
_third_ editions. As respects indecency, I find all the editions
equally disgraceful. The Museum copy of the _First Edition_ is,
I suspect, Grose’s own copy, as it contains numerous manuscript
additions which afterwards went to form the second edition. Excepting
the obscenities, it is really an extraordinary book, and displays
great industry, if we cannot speak much of its morality. It is the
well from which all the other authors—Duncombe, Caulfield, Clarke,
Egan, &c. &c.—drew their vulgar outpourings, without in the least
purifying what they had stolen.
HAGGART. Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, alias Barney M‘Coul,
written by himself while under sentence of Death, _curious frontispiece
of the Prisoner in Irons_, intermixed with all the Slang and Cant Words
of the Day, to which is added a Glossary of the same, 12mo. 1821
HALL’S (B. H.) Collection of College Words and Customs, 12mo.
_Cambridge_ (_U.S._), 1856
Very complete. The illustrations are excellent.