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
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100796.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 ; 8vo. Copy no. 279. Pencil note on front free endpaper: "1-5 hfleathe / 6-7 6 pts. boards / 7 vols.". Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "5 vols" [written over erased pencil note: "3 vols" and price (illegible)]. Pencil note on rear pastedown: "7 / aR[n?]". Pencil number on rear pastedown: "D2724". 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: Late nineteenth-century half Russia calf, vellum over boards; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
John Stephen Farmer (1845-1915), compiler