Green’s Dictionary of Slang

salesman’s dog n.

[pun on barker n.1 (2)]

a shop tout.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Salesman’s dog the same as Barker [i.e. a shop tout].
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.