A collection of college words and customs
Cambridge: published by John Bartlett, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 319; covers and spine a bit faded, occasional browning of the text, previous owner's names on endpapers; a very good, sound copy in original brown cloth decorated in blind, gilt lettering on spine. Hall, the brother of the noted philologist Fitzedward Hall, published this little volume shortly after his graduation from Harvard. It contains both English and American words and phrases in use by the students, and identifies not only the meaning but also the college of origin. The book must have met with some success as there was a second edition published in 1856, and a third in 1859. Bartlett, the publisher, had three years earlier issued his own Dictionary of Americanisms on which this is modeled. Not in Burkett, American Dictionaries of the English Language before 1861; not in the Kahn Collection; Kennedy 12043; Vancil, p. 106; Coleman 'A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries', v. II, p. 253. Item #44364
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