Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang, and phrase / by J. Redding Ware.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ware, J. Redding (James Redding)

Contributor:

Farmer, John Stephen, 1854-1916.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge's standard reference library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--19th century--Slang--Dictionaries.

English language.

Slang.

English language--Great Britain--Slang--Dictionaries.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Hamilton, N. E. (inscription)

Physical Description:

viii, 271 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : G. Routledge & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1909]

Notes:

"Forms a companion volume to Farmer and Henley's 'Dictionary of slang and colloquial English'."

Publisher's advertisements (1 leaf) at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has annotations, written in ms., in outer margins.

Culture Class Collection copy has newspaper article laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to N.E. Hamilton by Mae & Hetty, Christmas 1912.

Related Work:

Farmer, John Stephen, 1854-1916. Dictionary of slang and colloquial English.

OCLC:

3576226