Blindstamped Cloth
1859 · London
by Ducange, Anglicus
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859. Second Edition, Improved and Much Enlarged. Blindstamped Cloth. Very Good. Only 250 copies printed. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. iv, 80 pp. This edition not only combines two separate glossaries from the first edition, but adds many words and phrases. It also has an useful bibliography, four pages long. Particularly enjoyable are the "translations" from slang to standard English. The former are utterly opaque and foreign to modern readers, and probably to the educated classes of the day. Leaves are heavily age toned. Blindstamped red cloth with a stain on front, about one inch by an inch in size. Wear along the joints.
(Inventory #: 004870)