Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
“It is not fair on the part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author’s book, thus filching away his cream, and leaving little but skim-milk remaining; but, even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not in the present instance pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten’s plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation.”—The Times.
*** Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the signs which were formerly hung from taverns, &c.
THE WEDGE AND THE WOODEN SPOON.
HANDBOOK OF COLLOQUIALISMS.
The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. An Entirely New Edition, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged, containing upwards of a thousand more words than the last edition. Crown 8vo, with Curious Illustrations, cloth extra, 6s. 6d.
“Peculiarly a book which ‘no gentleman’s library should be without,’ while to costermongers and thieves it is absolutely indispensable.”—Dispatch.
“Interesting and curious. Contains as many as it was possible to collect of all the words and phrases of modern slang in use at the present time.”—Public Opinion.