Buy this book on-line BARRERE, ALBERT: : ARGOT AND SLANG: A NEW FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF THE CANT WORDS,QUAINT EXPRESSIONS,SLANG TERMS AND FLASH PHRASES USED IN THE HIGH AND LOW LIFE OF OLD AND NEW PARIS.LONDON.WHITTAKER AND CO.,1889. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,new,revised edn.[The UK HB 1st edn was privately printed by C. Whittingham and Co.,London,1887,at the Chiswick Press,believed in a small but unspecified edition/amount.There was also a simultaneous,similar author signed, numbered,limited edn of only 675 copies. There was also a reprint in 1907 and subsequent issues/edns by other publishers.This edn is the new and revised edn of 2 years later (1889),than the original 1st issues/edns,so 1st thus.] VG++.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,
believed as issued.Bright and generally clean,publisher's original olive green cloth boards with a cream,cloth blind-spine and stamped gilt letters to same,and inevitable off-set foxing to both front+ rear white free endpapers. Negligible shelf-wear and some inevitable (book's age) slight rubbing to edges and corners.Head+foot of spine/backstrip lightly bumped with reciprocal creasing and slightly grubbed/darkened - as usual/ normal.Top edge coloured(?),or slightly aged/darkened with light dust-soiling(?) and uncut/untrimmed,fore-edge brighter, cleaner and trimmed; contents bright,tight and clean with minimal foxing,if any,to bulk of same.UK,8vo HB,1st thus iv-lxpp+2- 483pp [paginated] includes a preface, authorities consulted and quoted,an introduction,Cants from the 15thC to 19thC ("Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language." from the 19thC,by J.W. Horsley, Chaplain of H.M. Prison,Clerkenwell],an A-Z French/English dictionary in double-column text,plus [unpaginated] etched b/w frontis by Godefroy Durand,black lettered title-page,Chiswick Press,printer's colophon recto of last paginated,page.
Barrère was an authority on many canting songs in English and French,and this is an acceptable conditioned,and uncommon,new and revised edn.
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