Robert Greene, The Second Part of Conny-catching (1591)
Date
1591
Author
Robert
Greene
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Second part of Conny-catching. Contayning the discouery of certaine wondrous Coosenages, either superficiallie past ouer, or vtterlie vntoucht in the first. As the nature of The blacke Art, Picking of lockes. The Vincents Law. Cosenage at Bowls. The Prigging Law, Horse stealing. The Courbing Law, Hooking at windows. The Lifting Law, Stealing of parcels The Foist, The pickepocket. The Nippe, The cut purse. With sundry pithy and pleasant Tales worthy the reading of all estates, that are ennemies to such base and dishonest practises
Publication place
London
Printer
John Wolf
Publisher
William Wright
Transcription source
EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library). An EEBO/TCP transcription is also available
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Summary
(a) "A Table of the Lawes contayned in this second part";
(b) "The discouery of the wordes of Art vsed in these Lawes"
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(a) b1r;
(b) b1
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Blacke arte. Picking of lockes. (b1r)
sample: Blacke arte. Picking of lockes. (b1r)
Schafer
1591 C
STC
12281
Catalog
Allison, Anthony F. Robert Greene 1558-1592: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Early Editions in English (To 1640). Pall Mall Bibliographies, 4. Folkestone, Kent: n.p., 1975.
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Modern editions
Grosart, Alexander B., ed. The Life and Works of Robert Greene. 15 vols. London: n.p., 1881-86.
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Greene, Robert. A Notable Discovery of Coosenage, 1591. The second part of conny-catching, 1592. Ed. G. B. Harrison. London: J. Lane, 1923. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 142-47. view record
Greene, Robert. A Notable Discovery of Coosenage, 1591. The second part of conny-catching, 1592. Ed. G. B. Harrison. London: J. Lane, 1923. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 142-47. view record
Criticisms
Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999.
25-26.
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Johnson, Francis R. "The Editions of Robert Greene's Three Parts of 'Conny-catching': A Bibliographical Analysis." 5th series. The Library 9 (1954): 17-24. view record
Johnson, Francis R. "The Editions of Robert Greene's Three Parts of 'Conny-catching': A Bibliographical Analysis." 5th series. The Library 9 (1954): 17-24. view record
