Richard Head, The Canting Academy (1673)
Date
1673
Author
Richard
Head
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Canting Academy, Or, The Devils Cabinet Opened: Wherein Is Shewn The Mysterious and Villanous Practices of that wicked Crew, commonly known by the Names of Hectors, Trapanners, Gilts, &c. To Which Is Added A Compleat Canting-Dictionary, both of old Words, and such as are now most in use. With several New Catches And Songs, Compos'd by the choisest Wits of the Age
Publication place
London
Printer
F. Leach
Publisher
Mat. Drew
Transcription source
EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Extent
34-56
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Been darkmans Good night. (p. 35)
sample: Been darkmans Good night. (p. 35)
Wing
H 1243
Catalog
Kennedy 11879, 11880 (1674)
Other editions
1674: Wing H1243a
Criticisms
- Gotti (1999): 33-48; Appendix I, pp. 123-24
