| “The two flasks were in brief time emptied” (The Wine Cellar) | [Photogravure Frontispiece] |
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| Headpiece to Contents | [v] |
| Tailpiece to Contents | [vi] |
| Headpiece to List of Illustrations | [vii] |
| Headpiece to Shakespeare at Charlecote Park | [1] |
| Tailpiece to Shakespeare at Charlecote Park | [6] |
| Headpiece to Shakespeare at “Bank-Side” | [7] |
| Tailpiece to Shakespeare at “Bank-Side” | [12] |
| Headpiece to The Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans | [13] |
| “One who would have added weight and dignity to the ceremony” | [17] |
| Headpiece to Bully Bottom’s Babes | [22] |
| Tailpiece to Bully Bottom’s Babes | [27] |
| Headpiece to Shakespeare in China | [28] |
| “Became wise by poring on his book” | [34] |
| Tailpiece to Shakespeare in China | [38] |
| Headpiece to Solomon’s Ape | [39] |
| “Cast him down a ripe pomegranate” | [43] |
| Tailpiece to Solomon’s Ape | [45] |
| Headpiece to The Castle Builders of Padua | [46] |
| Headpiece to The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais | [50] |
| Tailpiece to The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais | [57] |
| Headpiece to The Wine Cellar: A “Morality” | [58] |
| Tailpiece to The Wine Cellar: A “Morality” | [66] |
| Headpiece to Recollections of Guy Fawkes | [67] |
| “Rejoicing in the captivity of a suit of clothes stuffed with hay” | [70] |
| Tailpiece to Recollections of Guy Fawkes | [74] |
| Headpiece to Elizabeth and Victoria | [75] |
| “Rank ... preached its high prerogative from externals” | [80] |
| “Hangman’s surgery” | [83] |
| Headpiece to The Little Great and the Great Little | [90] |
| Tailpiece to The Little Great and the Great Little | [94] |
| Headpiece to The Manager’s Pig | [95] |
| Tailpiece to The Manager’s Pig | [102] |
| Headpiece to Some Account of a Stage Devil | [103] |
| “Would solace the child by playing upon a diabolic fiddle” | [113] |
| Tailpiece to Some Account of a Stage Devil | [120] |
| Headpiece to Fireside Saints | [121] |
| Tailpiece to Fireside Saints | [126] |
| Headpiece to Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities: The Tale of a Tiger | [127] |
| “Almost for two whole days did the tiger sleep” | [135] |
| Tailpiece to Cat-and-Fiddle Moralities: The Tale of a Tiger | [139] |
| Headpiece to A Gossip at Reculvers | [140] |
| “Sugar from even the sweeter lips of lady mistress” | [143] |
| Tailpiece to A Gossip at Reculvers | [149] |
| Headpiece to The Two Windows | [150] |
| Headpiece to The Order of Poverty | [154] |
| “He has dreamed away his life upon a hillside” | [164] |
| Tailpiece to The Order of Poverty | [165] |
| Headpiece to The Old Man at the Gate | [166] |
| Headpiece to The Folly of the Sword | [171] |
| “Hodge, poor fellow, enlists” | [175] |
| Tailpiece to The Folly of the Sword | [180] |
| Headpiece to The Greenwich Pensioner | [181] |
| Tailpiece to The Greenwich Pensioner | [188] |
| Headpiece to The Drill Sergeant | [189] |
| “He is, indeed, unbent” | [195] |
| Headpiece to The Handbook of Swindling | [199] |
| “Politely receives his destroyer” | [233] |
| “Any one of these names may be ... confidently given in to the night constable” | [246] |
| “Other worthies laboured on horseback” | [256] |