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 * The above diagram will explain itself, as an attempt to express to the eye the aspect in which the Vocabulary is here presented, and also some of the relations of its elements typical and aberrant. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (vol 1), Founded Mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, edited by James A. H. Murray with the assistance of many scholars and men of science (1888).

 * The above diagram will explain itself, as an attempt to express to the eye the aspect in which the Vocabulary is here presented, and also some of the relations of its elements typical and aberrant.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (vol 1), Founded Mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society, edited by James A. H. Murray with the assistance of many scholars and men of science (1888).

Handwritten French library ownership card and colour and converted-to-monochrome marbling on the inside front cover of A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1768).

Handwritten French library ownership card and colour and converted-to-monochrome marbling on the inside front cover of A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1768).

BOOKS BOUND BY US ARE “BOUND TO SATISFY” BOUND BY  CHAS.W.PRUFFER STAUNTON VA. Binding stamp from the front matter of The British Apollo, Volume 2 (1726).

BOOKS BOUND BY US ARE “BOUND TO SATISFY”

BOUND BY 

CHAS.W.PRUFFER

STAUNTON VA.

Binding stamp from the front matter of The British Apollo, Volume 2 (1726).

Illustration of “A private turn-up, in the Drawing Room of a Noble Marquis”, from the front matter of Old English Sports by Frederick W. Hackwood (1907).

Illustration of “A private turn-up, in the Drawing Room of a Noble Marquis”, from the front matter of Old English Sports by Frederick W. Hackwood (1907).

FINIS. The end of Practique Theories by John Gaule (1629). Heavily printed text visible from through the page.

FINIS.

The end of Practique Theories by John Gaule (1629).

Heavily printed text visible from through the page.

The long title of SLANG. A DICTIONARY OF THE TURF, THE RING, THE CHASE, THE PIT, OF BON-TON, AND THE VARIETIES OF LIFE, FORMING THE COMPLETEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC Lexicon Balatronicum HITHERTO OFFERED TO THE NOTICE OF THE SPORTING WORLD, For elucidating Words and Phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective Spheres. INTERSPERSED WITH ANECDOTES AND WHIMSIES, WITH TART QUOTATIONS, AND RUM-ONES; WITH EXAMPLES, PROOFS, AND MONITORY PRECEPTS, USEFUL AND PROPER FOR NOVICES, FLATS, AND YOKELS. by John Badcock (1823).

The long title of SLANG. A DICTIONARY OF THE TURF, THE RING, THE CHASE, THE PIT, OF BON-TON, AND THE VARIETIES OF LIFE, FORMING THE COMPLETEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC Lexicon Balatronicum HITHERTO OFFERED TO THE NOTICE OF THE SPORTING WORLD, For elucidating Words and Phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective Spheres. INTERSPERSED WITH ANECDOTES AND WHIMSIES, WITH TART QUOTATIONS, AND RUM-ONES; WITH EXAMPLES, PROOFS, AND MONITORY PRECEPTS, USEFUL AND PROPER FOR NOVICES, FLATS, AND YOKELS. by John Badcock (1823).