By an anonymous author. Contains some low sporting terms.
STANLEYE’S Remedy, or the Way how to Reform Wandring Beggers, Thieves,
etc., wherein is shewed that Sodomes Sin of Idlenes is the Poverty and
the Misery of this Kingdome, 4to. 1646
This work has an engraving on wood which is said to be the veritable
original of Jim Crow.
SWIFT’S coarser pieces abound in vulgarities and slang expressions.
THE TRIUMPH OF WIT, or Ingenuity display’d in its Perfection, being the
Newest and most Useful Academy, Songs, Art of Love, _and the Mystery
and Art of Canting, with Poems, Songs, &c., in the Canting Language_,
16mo. _J. Clarke_, 1735
What is generally termed a shilling _Chap Book_.
THE TRIUMPH OF WIT, or the Canting Dictionary, being the Newest and
most Useful Academy, containing the Mystery and Art of Canting, with
the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it
serves and is employed, illustrated with Poems, Songs, and various
Intrigues in the Canting Language, with the Explanations, &c., 12mo.
_Dublin_, N.D.
A Chap Book of 32 pages, circa 1760.