Sportsman's slang : a new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase and the cock-pit, with those of bon-ton and the varieties of life : forming an original and authentic lexicon balatronicum et macaronicum, particulary adapted to the use of the sporting world ... : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats and yokels /

Sportsman's slang : a new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase and the cock-pit, with those of bon-ton and the varieties of life : forming an original and authentic lexicon balatronicum et macaronicum, particulary adapted to the use of the sporting world ... : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats and yokels /

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Author / Creator:	Badcock, John, active 1816-1830
Edition:	Ed. altera.
Imprint:	London : Printed by W. Lewis ... for the author, [1825?]
Description:	[2], xvi, 222 [i.e. 202] p., [5] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (1 col.) ; 18 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries Cant -- Dictionaries. Swindlers and swindling -- Slang -- Dictionaries. Sports -- Slang -- Dictionaries. Cant. English language -- Slang. Sports -- Slang. Dictionaries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3133280

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Notes:	Numbers 28-47 omitted from the paging. Largely a reissue of his Slang, a dictionary of the turf, the ring the chase ... (1823); t.p. replaced by a new t.p and author's "advertisement" added; text enlarged from 216 to 222 p.--NUC pre-1956. Col. frontispiece has title: Life--In its varieties.

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