Robert Greene, The Groundwork of Conny-catching (1592)
Date
1592
Author
Lexicon title
To the Reader. HEere I set before thee (good Reader) the lewd lowsle language of these loytering lusks, and laysie lorels, wherewith they buy and sell the common people as they passe through the countrey. Which language they tearme Pedlers French, an unknowne tongue to all but to these bolde beastly bawdy beggers and vaine Vagabonds, beeing halfe mingled with English when it is familiarly talked, and first placing thinges by their proper names, as an Introduction, to this peeuish speach
Book title
The Groundworke of Conny-catching; the manner of their Pedler's French, and the meanes to vnderstand the same with the cunning slights of the Counterfeit Cranke. Therein are handled the practises of the Visiter, the fetches of the Shifter and Rufflar, the deceits of their Doxes, the deuises of Priggers, the names of the base loytering Losels, and the meanes of euery Blacke-Art-mans shifts, with the reproofe of all the diuellish practises. Done by a Iustice of Peace of great authoritie, who hath had the examining of diuers of them
Publication place
London
Printer
John Danter
Publisher
William Barley
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Summary
A partial reprinting of Thomas Harman's A caueat or warening for common cursetors
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
a2r-a2v
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Nab, a head.
sample: Nab, a head.
Alston
IX.224
STC
12789.5
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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Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 11873. view record
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 11873. view record
Modern editions
Grosart, Alexander B., ed. The Life and Works of Robert Greene. 15 vols. London: n.p., 1881-86.
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Criticisms
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.
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Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 142-47. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 142-47. view record
