1869 · London
by [Hotten, John Camden]
London: John Camden Hotten, 1869. Large paper edition limited to 100 copies, 4to, interleaved throughout; pp. xxi-[xxiv], 305, 5 (ads); frontispiece map, illus. in text; extremities rubbed, small crack at head of spine, else good or better in original red paper-covered boards backed in green morocco gilt, t.e.g. A work three times the size of the first edition which was published in 1859. Includes the prefaces to the first and second editions, and a 64-p. History of slang and cant which precedes the dictionary proper. This edition not mentioned by Kennedy and not found in NUC.
(Inventory #: 44401)