CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE BOOKS, FORMING THE STOCK OF BERNARD QUARITCH, BOOKSELLER, 15 & 16, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. LONDON, 1859. Mr. Quaritch's Catalogues are issued monthly, and are sent gratis for BERNARD QUARITCH'S GENERAL CATALOGUE OF THE Bare, Valuable and Curious Old Books, Comprising his stock; having been selected from the best Libraries recently dispersed in England and Abroad. All books are in fine library condition, and are warranted perfect. ENGLISH LITERATURE. This class includes a Library, recently bought in Hertfordshire. 1 LANGUAGE AND DIALECTS: ASH's Dictionary of the English Language, with Grammar, 2 vols. 8vo. second edition, tall fine clean copy, in rough calf, 12s Fine clean copies are scarce. 1795 2 BAILEY (N.) Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 2 vols. small 8vo. cuts, russia extra, gilt edges, 18s 1731 3 CARR on the Dialect of Craven in the Co. of York, with a copious Glossary, 2 vols. 8vo. second edition, (pub. at 20s) cloth, 12s 1828 1853 4 COOPER'S Glossary of the Provincialism in use in the County of Sussex, 12mo. second edition, cloth, 38 6d 5 COOTE's English Grammar, with Notes critical and etymological, and introduction upon Universal Grammar, 8vo. hf. bd. 2s 1788 6 CUMBERLAND Dialect. RELPH's Miscellany of Poems, containing pastorals in the Cumberland dialect, with Glossary, 8vo. calf, 7s Glasgow, 1747 7 DUCANGE Anglicus: the Vulgar Tongue, comprising Two Glossaries of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases, principally used in London at the present day, 1 vol. 16mo. cloth, edges cut, 3s 6d the same, morocco back, gilt top, uncut, 4s 1857 1857 This little volume has been printed with the view of assisting Literary Men, the Officers of the Law, and Philanthropists, in their intercourse with Classes of English Society who use a different Phraseology, only understood by their own fraternity. The first Glossary is entirely original;-the second the editor has reprinted from a Report presented in 1839 to the Government. The edition has been confined to 250 copies. Any additions may be forwarded to the publisher, who will deliver them to the editor, should a new edition be called for. CONTENTS: A Dictionary of Slang Words and Phrases, collected in London, 1856 and 1857. A Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language, reprinted from a volume entitled " Mendicity, and Crime," edited by H. Brandon, Esq. 1839. The Leary Man, a Flash Song. A Tailor's Handbill, in Slang, with Translation. Poverty, 9 FORBY (Rev. R.) Vocabulary of East Anglia; Norfolk and Suffolk, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. portrait, (pub. at 21s) bds. 17s 6d 1830 10 GROSE'S Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 8vo. second edition, half calf, 68 6d 1788 , 11 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, with additions by Pierce Egan, 8vo. portrait of Grose, bds. 5s 6d 1823 12 Provincial Glossary, with a collection of local Proverbs and Superstitions, small 8vo. half calf, 58 1811 A |