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Coleman, Julie (2004). A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume II 1785-1858. New York: Oxford University Press
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Events:
17 events from this source recorded
1567
Thomas Harman's "Caveat or Warening for Commen Cursetors"
1674
Ray's 'Collection of English words' published
1699
B.E.'s 'Dictionary of the Canting Crew'
1721
Bailey's 'Universal Etymological English Dictionary' published
1730
Bailey's 'Dictionarium Britannicum'
1755
Bailey's 'A New Universal English Dictionary'
1755
Johnson publishes 'A dictionary of the English Language'
1785
Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'
1795
Caulfield's "Blackguardiana"
1795
Potter's "New Dictionary of all the Cant and Flash Languages"
1811
'The Lexicon Balatronicum'
1819
'The Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux'
1823
Egan's edition of Grose's "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue"
1823
John Bee's slang dictionary
1859
George Matsell's "Vocabulum"
1946
Starnes & Noyes' 'The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755'
1984
Sidney I. Landau's 'Dictionaries. The Art and Craft of Lexicography'