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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, particularly adapted to the use of the sporting world, for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, rendered cramp, mutative and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres. 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 / by John Bee [pseud.].

Accession number
PML 152811
Creator
Badcock, John, active 1816-1830.
Published
London: Printed by W. Lewis, 21, Finch-lane, Cornhill; for the author. 1825.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Numbers 28-47 omitted from the paging.
Largely a reissue of his Slang. A dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase ... (1823); original t.p. replaced by a new t.p. & conjugate leaf containing author's "Advertisement"; original p. 215-216 replaced by p. 215-222 containing enlarged text.
The engraved frontispiece has caption "Life--in its varieties" and depicts a scene in a "Cock-and-hen club". Robert Cruikshank's design "A bit of good truth" in Pierce Egan's Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic ... (1830) has a rough resemblance to it.
"Sold by T. Hughes...; J. Walker"--Verso of title page.
Description
2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xvi, 222 (i.e. 202) pages : folded color frontispiece, 4 plates ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia Wightman (her bookplate), acquired in 1953.
Binding
Brown polished calf, stamped and lettered in gold, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt.
Classification
Department