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or, Dictionary of Rogues, Bawds, ., 8vo, WITH PORTRAITS [by James Caul field]. 1795. This work, with a long and very vulgar title, is nothing but a reprint of Grose, with a few anecdotes of pirates, odd persons, ., and some curious portraits inserted. It was concocted by Caul field as a speculation, and published at one guinea per copy; and, owing to the remarkable title, and the notification at the bottom that “only a few copies were printed,” soon became scarce. For philological purposes it is not worth so much as any edition of Grose.