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Lexicon balatronicum : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence / compiled originally by Captain Grose ; and now considerably altered and enlarged with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the Whip club ; Assisted by Hell-fire Dick, and James Gordon, esqrs. of Cambridge, and William Soames, esq. of the hon. society of Newman's hotel.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791, author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Standardized Title:
- Classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Slang--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii pages, 224 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Lexicon balatronicum
- Notes:
- Edited by Hewson Clarke; frontispiece by George Cruikshank.
- Originally published as: A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue (London : S. Hooper, 1785).
- Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
- OCLC:
- 1113879546
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