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[SLANG] [KENT, George?] The Modern Flash Dictionary. London: W. Ward’s Bachelor’s Repository of Arts, ca. 1830. Publisher’s blue pictorial wraps bearing an image of “Joe Downy” reciting “flash lingo” to a crowd, retained in smooth sprinkled calf ruled in gilt with gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered Morocco title label, with gilt turn-ins. Marbled endsheets, ends stained red. Engraved bookplate. Small 8vo. Boards rubbed, minor spotting internally; very good or better. A compilation based on earlier works of sporting slang, criminal cant, and “flash phrases now in vogue.” This work includes sixty categories of “prime coves” (top-class rogues) including criminals of nearly every description.