Mayhew’s (Henry) London Labour and the London Poor, 4 vols. 1851-61.
An invaluable work to the inquirer into popular or street language.
Mayhew’s (Henry) Great World of London, 8vo. 1857.
An unfinished work, but containing several examples of the use and application of Cant and Slang words.
Middleton (Thomas) and Decker’s (Thomas) Roaring Girl; or Moll Cut Purse, 4to. 1611.
The conversation in one scene is entirely in the so-called pedlar’s French. It is given in Dodsley’s Old Plays.
Modern Flash Dictionary, 48mo. 1825.
The smallest Slang dictionary ever printed; intended for the waistcoat-pockets of the “BLOODS” of the Prince Regent’s time.
Moncrieff’s Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, a Farce in Three Acts, 12mo. 1820.
An excellent exponent of the false and forced “high life” which was so popular during the minority of George IV. The farce had a run of a hundred nights, or more, and was a general favourite for years. It abounds in Cant, and the language of “gig,” as it was then often termed.