A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : slang-including the language of the underworld, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized / by Eric Partridge.
Eric Partridge (1894-1979)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100795
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition, revised and enlarged. xviii, 1051, [3] p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "F. / from / Bob Laycock. / November 29th 1938" [i.e.: to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; gilt lettered spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
Eric Partridge (1894-1979), author