Thomas Dekker, The Bellman of London (1608)

Date

1608

Author

Thomas Dekker Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

London

Book title

The Belman of London. Bringing to Light the most Notoriovs Villanies that are now Practised in the Kingdome: Profitable for Gentlemen, Lawyers, Merchants, Citizens, Farmers, Masters of Housholds, and all sorts of seruants to marke, and delightfull for all men to read

Printer

Nicholas Okes

Publisher

Nathaniel Butter

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

canting

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Dudes, clothes.

Alston

IX.225

Schafer

1608 B, 1640D

STC

6481

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. 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. 11874. view record

Other editions

1608: STC 6482 (EEBO/TCP transcript);
1616: STC 6483;
1620: STC 6480.5;
1640: STC 6484

Facsimiles

Dekker, Thomas. The Belman of London. The English experience, no. 584. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1973. view record

Modern editions

Dekker, Thomas. The Non-dramatic works of Thomas Dekker. Ed. Alexander B. Grosart. 5 vols. Vol. III. [London]: Printed for private circulation only [by Hazell, Watson & Viney], 1884-86. 61-169. view record

Criticisms

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