Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Typographical errors in posters have been transcribed as-is.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
In the original book, shilling and pence abbreviations usually were italicized and sometimes superscripted, but for readability, they are shown here as s. and d.
Posters are shown in solid frames; their transcriptions are shown in dotted frames. The original book did not use frames.
Volume II is available at [Project Gutenberg] as eBook number [58668]. It contains an Index to both volumes.