Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 143

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(POETICAL MISCELLANY.) Bacchus and Venus: or, A Select Collection of near 200 of the most Witty and Diverting Songs and Catches in Love and Gallantry . . . To which is added, A Collection of Songs in the Canting Dialect, with a Dictionary explaining all the Burlesque and Canting Terms used by the several Tribes of Gipsies, Beggars, and other Clans of Cheats and Villains. Woodcut frontispiece. [12], 118; [26]; [118] (of [120]) pages; lacks last leaf, presumably blank. 3 parts in one volume. 12mo, 161x99 mm, modern calf gilt with morocco lettering piece; contents toned with occasional heavy foxing, most noticeable on opening leaves and at beginning of second part, small piece missing from blank outer margin of frontispiece. London: R. Montague, 1737

Additional Details

scarce first edition of a collection of love and drinking songs including an early dictionary of itinerant and underworld vernacular. Case 409; ESTC N31988 (giving incorrect pagination).