Thomas Dekker, English Villainies (and Manuscript Additions) (1632)

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Date
1632
Author
Thomas Dekker Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicographer
Book title
English Villanies
Publication place
London
Printer
E.P.
Publisher
Nicholas Gamage
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
canting
Summary
There are manuscript additions as well as a manuscript glossary of cant on the inside of the back cover of a 1648 edition. The additions have been tentatively dated ca. 1665-1700 by Coleman (2004): 37-39.
Language
headwords: cant
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
m3v-m4v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Dudes, cloathes.
STC
6491
Other editions
1638: STC 6492
1648: Wing D862
Criticisms
Coleman (2004): 37-39.
Sources
Richard Head's English Rogue (1665).