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• A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James., by John Camden Hotten (Gutenberg ebook)

• A friendly discourse concerning profane cursing and swearing, wherein is shewed the heinousness of those sins, and the necessity of private persons giving informations for the suppressing of them, pursuant to the late act of Parliament: In a familiar conference between two plain persons. Made publick for the awakening of the consciences of common-swearers; and the vindication of our religious informers, who have been the instruments of the remarkable abatement of swearing; and for the encouragement of all good Christians, to joyn their endeavours with them for the entire suppressing it; and by giving informations to the magistrates against it, drunkenness, and prophanation of the Lord's Day. (London : printed, and are to be sold by W. Downing in St. Bartholomew-Close, near West-Smithfield, 1697) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A collection of certaine statutes in force,: vvith full and ready notes in the margent, containing their effect in briefe. As also the ordinances for the better observation of the Lords day, and the fast dayes. Published for the better caution of such as are inclinable to delinquency against the severall effects of those statutes and ordinances. And also for the better information of all such officers and ministers as are by late speciall warrants authorised and commanded to put the same statutes and ordinances in execution. For the better suppressing 1. Of unlawfull pastimes and abuses on the Lords day. 2. Of prophane swearing and cursing. 3. Of the loathsome sin of drunkennesse. 4. Of the severall offences committed by inne-keepers, ale-house-keepers, and unlicensed ale-house-keepers. 5. Of unlawful games. And severall other abuses. Being appointed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London to be published in all congregations within his jurisdiction. (London : printed by Robert White, and are to be sold at his house on Adling-Hill, MDCXLIV. [1644]), by England and Wales and co-author W. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Discourse against profane swearing and cursing wherein I. Those vices are describ'd and reprov'd, II. Both magistrates and private persons are excited to their duty in order to the suppressing 'em by the execution of the late act of Parliament against 'em, III. And the objections commonly rais'd against the present practice of private informations are modestly consider'd. (Dublin : Printed for Matthew Gunn ..., 1698) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse against 1. drunkenness, 2. swearing & cursing published (pursuant to His Majesty's injunctions) to suppress debauchery and profaneness / by William Assheton ... (London : Printed by Tho. Braddyll, and are to be sold by Richard Sympson ..., 1692), by William Assheton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Letter to a gentleman in the commission of the peace exciting him to the performance of his part in executing the late act against profane cursing and swearing. (London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A hopefull way to cure, that horrid sinne of swearing: or an helpe to save swearers, if willing to be saved being an offer or message from him whom they so daringly and audaciously provoke. Also a curb against cursing. ([London : s.n., 1645]), by Richard Younge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second humble cry of this kingdome to their desired nursing father the king with Parliament for their preventing helpe against the power of sword and famine with the meanes thereof propounded in this city and all places yet unplundered, and if the noyse of the multitude of businesse doe kepe them from hearing us, we entreat our elder brethren in London and Westminster dayly to present this our supplycation to their eyes and eares. ([London : s.n., 1645?]), by Thomas Nutt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A just plea against swearing, and against the national worship of England briefly demonstrating the grounds and reasons why we choose rather to suffer, then to bow to either of them. By a sufferer for his testimony against them, known by the name of Ja. Picton. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1663), by James Picton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Midd' ss. Ad general' quarteral' session' pacis dom' regis & dom' reginæ, tent' pro com' præd' apud Hick's-Hall in St. John's-street, in com' præd' per adjornament' die veneris, scilicet decimo die Julii, ... (London : Printed by Tho. Braddyll, 1691), by England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King. A proclamation for the suppressing of profane swearing and cursing. ([Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1635]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves (London: J. Duncombe, 1848), illust. by George Cruikshank
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• Das deutsche gaunerthum in seiner social-politischen. (F. A. Brockhaus, 1858), by Friedrich Christian Benedict Avé-Lallemant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poverty, mendicity and crime : or, The facts, examinations, &c, upon which the report was founded (Shaw and sons, 1839), by William Augustus Miles and H. Brandon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter : who was apprehended for robbing Dr. Hancock ... Written wholly by himself ... (Printed for R. Goadby, 1769), by John Poulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jargon du xve siècle, étude philologique; onze ballades en jargon attribuées à François Villon, dont cinq ballades inédites, publiées pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm, précédées d'un discours préliminaire sur l'organisation des gueux et l'origine du jargon, et suivies d'un vocabulaire analytique du jargon (G. Charpentier & cie, 1884), by Auguste Charles Joseph Vitu and François Villon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896) (Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wörterbuch der wichtigsten Geheim- und Berufssprachen : Jüdisch-Deutsch, Rotwelsch, Kundensprache, Soldaten-, Seemanns-, Weidmanns-, Bergmanns- und Komödiantensprache (T. Grieben, 1916), by Erich Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Rotwelsch des deutschen Gauners. (F. W. Grunow, 1905), by L. Günther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conventional cant, its results and remedy (K. Paul, Trench & co., 1887), by Sidney Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jargon du XVe siècle, étude philologique : onze ballades en jargon attribuées à François Villon, dont cinq ballades inédites, publiées pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque royale de Stockholm, précédées d'un discours préliminaire sur l'organisation des gueux et l'origine du jargon, et suivies d'un vocabulaire analytique du jargon (G. Charpentier & cie, 1883), by Auguste Charles Joseph Vitu and François Villon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chochemer loschen. Wörterbuch der Gauner- und Diebs- vulgo jenischen Sprache, nach Criminalacten und der vorzüglichsten Hülfsquellen (In Commission bei Friedrich Pustet, 1832), by J.K. von Train (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux. (Printed by W. Clowes, 1819), by James Hardy Vaux and Barron Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das wesen und treiben der gauner, diebe und betrüger Deutschlands, nebst angabe von maassregeln, sich gegen raub, diegbstahl und betrug zu schützen, und einem wörterbuche der diebessprache. (C.F. Schmidt, 1846), by Chr Rochlitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aktenmässige Geschichte der Räuberbanden an den beiden Ufern des Mains, im Spessart und im Oldenwalde ... Nebst einer Sammlung und Verdollmetschung mehrerer Wörter aus der Jenischen oder Gauner-Sprache. [With] Nachtrag. (G. Braun, 1812), by Ludwig Pfister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kocheme Waldiwerei in der reussischen Märtine; oder, Die Gauner und Gaunerarten im reussischen Voigtlande und der Umgegend, ihre Taktik, ihre Aufenthaltsorte und ihre Sprache. (J.K.G. Wagner, 1822), by W. Fd Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le génie de l'argot : essai sur les langues spéciaux, les argots et les parlers magiques (Mercure de France, 1912), by Alfredo Niceforo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three countries of canting songs and slang rhymes (Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eagle legal definitions based on the laws relating to crime; also underworld terms and their meanings (The Eagle library, 1937), by Harold St. L. O'Dougherty (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New canting dictionary: comprehending all the terms, ancient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains. Interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. Being a complete collection of all that has been publish'd of that kind. With very large additions of words never before made publick ... With a preface, giving an account of the original, progress, &c. of the canting crew; and recommending methods for diminishing these varlets, by better employment of the poor. To which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect. (London, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur l'emploi de l'argot des malfaiteurs chez les auteurs romantiques (Appelbergs boktryckeri a.-b., 1917), by Nils Evert Taube (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das rotwelsch des deutschen gauners (trüben, 1905), by Georg Ludolf Louis Günther (page images at HathiTrust)
• English Gypsies and their language (Hurd and Houghton, 1873), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaunerstreiche, oder Listige ränke der betrieger unserer zeit. Eine beantwortung der frage: "Wovon leben so viele unbemittelte, und doch nicht arbeitende menschen, besonders in grossen städten?" Um redliche vor schaden zu warnen. (J.A. Kienreich, 1820), by Franz Rittler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das gaunerglossar der Freistädter handschrift. (s.n., 1899), by Hans Gross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dieventaal. ([Amsterdam, 1913), by H. W. J. Kroes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die jenische Sprache ... (F.C.W. Vogel, 1915), by Engelbert Wittich and Georg Ludolf Louis Günther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studii sulle lingue furbesche (Forni, 1969), by Bernardino Biondelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verbrechen und verbrecher; mitteilungen zum schutze des publikums ... (F. Fontane & Co., 1892), by A. Oscar Klaussmann and C. Weien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars, containing his life--a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man. (Printed for W. Salter and sold by Crosby's & Co., London, and the booksellers in Exeter [etc.], 1812), by Robert Goadby and Hamblin & Seyfang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English gipsies and their language (Trübner, 1873), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die jenische Sprache (in German), by Engelbert Wittich, ed. by Georg Ludolf Louis Günther (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, illust. by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pachuco: An American-Spanish Argot and Its Social Functions in Tucson, Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1969), by George C. Barker (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Arizona)

• The Underworld Speaks: An Insight to Vice, Crime, Corruption (San Francisco: Prevent Crime Bureau, c1935), by Albin J. Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American underworld lingo (Twayne Publishers, 1950), by Hyman E. Goldin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern flash dictionary, containing all the cant words, slang terms, and flash phrases, now in vogue. (J. Duncombe, 1830), by George Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American underworld lingo (Citadel Press, 1962), by Hyman E. Goldin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal slang. (Christopher, 1949), by Vincent Joseph Monteleone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new canting dictionary, comprehending all the terms, antient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains : interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. : being a complete collection of all that has been publish'd of that kind, with very large additions of words never before made publick ... : with a preface, giving an account of the original, progress, &c. of the canting crew, and recommending methods for diminishing these varlets, by better employment of the poor : to which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect. (And sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon: Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, by George W. Matsell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James., by John Camden Hotten (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars: Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man (Gutenberg ebook)
• A new dictionary of the canting crew in its several tribes of gypsies, beggers [sic], thieves, cheats &c., with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches &c. : useful for all sorts of people (especially foreigners) to secure their money and preserve their lives ; besides very diverting and entertaining being wholly new / by B.E. (London : Printed for W. Hawes ..., P. Gilbourne ..., and W. Davis ..., [1699]), by B. E. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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