Alexander Smith, A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the most Notorious Highway-men, Foot-pads, Shop-lifts, and Cheats (1720)
Date
1720
Author
Lexicon title
The Thieves New Canting Dictionary
Book title
A Compleat History Of The Lives and Robberies Of the most Notorious Highway-Men, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats, of both Sexes, in and about London and Westminster, and all Parts of Great Britain, for above an Hundred Years past, continu'd to the present Time.... To which is prefix'd, The Thieves New Canting-Dictionary, Explaining the most mysterious Words, New Terms, Significant Phrases, and Proper Idioms, used at this present Time by our Modern Thieves.
Edition
Fifth
Publication place
London
Publisher
Sam. Briscoe
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Language
headwords: Canting
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Boarding-School, Bridewell.
sample: Boarding-School, Bridewell.
Alston
IX.279
STC
ESTC T097129
Other editions
Alston IX.280 (1719)
