Mr. George Cruikshank has supplied two wonderful pictures as illustrations to the work. One is a portrait of Giant Bolster, a personage twelve miles high.
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Pp. 336, handsomely printed, cloth extra, price 3s. 6d.
Holidays with Hobgoblins; or, Talk of Strange Things. By DUDLEY COSTELLO. With humorous engravings by George Cruikshank. Amongst the chapters may be enumerated: Shaving a Ghost; Superstitions and Traditions; Monsters; the Ghost of Pit Pond; the Watcher of the Dead; the Haunted House near Hampstead; Dragons, Griffins, and Salamanders; Alchemy and Gunpowder; Mother Shipton; Bird History; Witchcraft and Old Boguey; Crabs; Lobsters; the Apparition of Monsieur Bodry.
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SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO HONE’S WORKS.
In preparation, thick 8vo., uniform with “Year-Book,” pp. 800.
Hone’s Scrap Book. A Supplementary Volume to the “Every-Day Book,” the “Year-Book,” and the “Table-Book.” From the MSS. of the late WILLIAM HONE, with upwards of One Hundred and Fifty engravings of curious or eccentric objects.
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BARNUM’S NEW BOOK.