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Dictionary of the Underworld (Wordsworth Collection)

By Eric Partridge,Eric Partridge

The slang dictionary

By John Camden Hotten

The English Gipsies and their language

By Charles Godfrey Leland

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words

By John Camden Hotten

The secret languages of Ireland, with special reference to the origin and nature of the Shelta language, partly based upon collections and manuscripts of the late John Sampson

By Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

Lanthorne and candle-light

By Thomas Dekker

The big con

By David W. Maurer

A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant

By Albert Barrère

Whiz mob

By David W. Maurer

Language of Thieves

By Martin Puchner

The belman of London

By Thomas Dekker

Pachuco

By George Carpenter Barker

Dicionário dos marginais

By Ariel Tacla

An English translation of Les princes du jargon

By Alice Becker-Ho

Infidel Poetics

By Daniel Tiffany

Russkai︠a︡ vorovskai︠a︡ klichka

By Grachev, M.

A vocabulary of criminal slang, with some examples of common usages

By Louis E. Jackson

Pachuco: an American-Spanish argot and its social functions in Tucson, Arizona

By George Carpenter Barker

Criminal slang

By Vincent Joseph Monteleone

El idioma del delito

By Dellepiane, Antonio

Il libro dei vagabondi

By Piero Camporesi

Die Wiener Gaunersprache

By Peter Wehle

The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter

By John Poulter

Les gros mots

By Pierre Guiraud