English villanies
Subtitle: seven severall times prest to death by the printers, but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time (as at the first) discovred by Lanthorne and candle-light : and the helpe of a new cryer called O-Per-Se-O, vvhose loud voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him another conspiracy of abuses lately plotting together to hurt the peace of this kingdome ... and because a company of rogues, cunning and canting gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight heere under their tattered colours : at the end is a canting dictionary to teach their language ...
Contributors: Parsons, Marmaduke, d. 1639, printer.; Becket, James, fl. 1636-1641, bookseller.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by M. Parsons and are to be sold by Iames Becket ...
Published: 1638
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Crime -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.; Rogues and vagabonds -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Slang -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Dictionaries.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 6492
Dedication signed: T. Dekker.
Signatures: A-O⁴.