Mysteries of the criminal records : a romance of both hemispheres.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New-York :
Burgess, Stringer & Co., Publishers,
1848.
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| Item Description: | Printed in double columns. Illustrated with inserted engraved frontispiece, full page wood engraving printed in blue and several half page mid-text engravings. [J.M. Moore?] "Author attribution based on a contemporary advertisement for this title printed in the "Louisville Daily Courier," June 10, 1848."--Bookseller. "Glossary to the Slang Language" printed between chapters XX and XXI, referring back to 123 numbered slang terms used in the former chapter (for example, gin is "white velvet," being drunk is to be "fly," and "dub the jigger" means to open the door, a now-obsolete term which appeared as early as "The New Dictionary of the Canting Crew," London, approximately 1698). The terms are decidedly of British origin, though the glossary itself precedes the earliest American slang dictionary by three years."--Bookseller." The Cushing Library/Lit./Mitchell copy contains bookseller's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 112 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 23 cm |