Slang and its Analogues Past and Present.
Reading edition
A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of all Classes of Society for more than Three Hundred Years.
WITH SYNONYMS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, ETC.
COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN S. FARMER, “Americanisms—Old and New”: “Ex Oriente Lux”: “’Twixt Two Worlds.”
VOL. I.—A to Byz. PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. MDCCCXC.
The author will esteem it a favour to be furnished with examples of cant or slang of any kind or nationality, together with quotations, especially early ones, illustrating usage, meaning, derivation, etc. All communications may be addressed to John S. Farmer, care of A. P. Watt, Esq., 2, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.
