Book review
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries I: 1567–1784. By Julie Coleman.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2004–2010. xii, 259 pp. xiv, 338 pp. xxiv, 489 pp. xxvi, 503 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-925471-2 / 978-0-19-925470-2 / 978-0-19-954937-5 / 978-0-19-956725-6 ₤100 ₤100 ₤80 ₤75 respectively (HB)

Reviewed by John Considine
University of Alberta, Edmonton
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