Thomas Dekker, Lanthorn and Candle-light (1608)
Date
1608
Author
Thomas
Dekker
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
The Canters dictionary
Book title
Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or The Bell-mans second Nights walke. In which Hee brings to light, a Broode of more strange Villanies, than euer were till this yeare discouered
Publication place
London
Printer
George Eld
Publisher
John Busby
Transcription source
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum facsimile (Bodleian Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
C1r-C2r (misprinted as b2)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Alston
IX.230
Schafer
1608 D
STC
6485
Catalog
Allison, Anthony F. Thomas Dekker, c. 1572-1632: A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Early Editions (To the End of the 17th Century). Pall Mall Bibliographies, 1. Folkestone, Kent: n.p., 1972.
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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. 11875. 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. 11875. view record
Other editions
1609: STC 6486;
1616: STC 6487-88;
1620: STC 6489;
1632: STC 6491;
1638: STC 6492;
1648: Wing D862
1616: STC 6487-88;
1620: STC 6489;
1632: STC 6491;
1638: STC 6492;
1648: Wing D862
Facsimiles
Dekker, Thomas. Lanthorne and Candle-light. The English experience, no. 585. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1973.
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Modern editions
Dekker, Thomas. The Wonderful Year. The Gull's Horn Book. Penny-wise, Pound-Foolish. English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candlelight and Selected Writings. Ed. E. D. Pendry. Stratford-upon-Avon Library 4. Cambridge, Mass.: n.p., 1967.
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Criticisms
Collier, John Payne. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, alphabetically arranged, which during the last fifty years, have come under the observation of J. P. Collier. 2 vols. London: Joseph Lilly, 1865. 254-55.
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Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. 27-29. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 29-38. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. 27-29. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 29-38. view record
