Slang and its analogues, past and present. : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc. / compiled and edited by John S. Farmer, ...
John Stephen Farmer (1845-1915)
Category
Books
Date
1890 - 1903
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100796
Summary
Bibliographic description
7 v. ; 8vo. Copy no. 279. Pencil note on front free endpaper in v. 1: "1-5 hfleathe / 6-7 6 pts. boards / 7 vols.". Pencil note on front free endpaper verso in v. 1: "5 vols" [written over erased pencil note: "3 vols" and price (illegible)]. Pencil note on rear pastedown in v. 1: "7 / aR[n?]". Pencil number on rear pastedown in v. 1: "D2724". Pencil number on rear pastedown in v. 1: "D2724". Pencil code on rear free endpaper in v. 2: "Rb/=". Pencil note on p. 382 in v. 3 in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966), giving an additional definition of "hunch". Provenance: 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: Vols. 1-5: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century half Russia calf, vellum over boards; gilt lettered upper boards and spines. Vols. 6-7: Twentieth-century half maroon morocco, vellum over boards; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; binder's ink-stamp on front pastedowns: 'Birdsall. Northampton.'
Makers and roles
John Stephen Farmer (1845-1915), compiler William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), compiler