Notice how cleverly us Americans turned the thread around so it's mostly everybody else's cultural oddities? 'Slang and Its Analogues', by J. S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, 7 vols, 1890-1904, was reprinted by Arno Press in 1 vol., 1970. This covers the British Isles and the U.S. pretty well until date of original publication.