THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT BROOKES’S.
Timbs’ Clubs and Club Life in London. With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns. By John Timbs, F.S.A. New Edition, with numerous Illustrations, drawn expressly. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s. 6d.
*** A Companion to “The History of Sign-Boards.” It abounds in quaint stories of the Blue Stocking, Kit-Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, One o’Clock, the Civil, and hundreds of other Clubs; together with Tom’s, Dick’s, Button’s, Ned’s, Will’s, and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century.
“The book supplies a much-felt want. The club is the avenue to general society at the present day, and Mr. Timbs gives the entrée to the club. The scholar and antiquary will also find the work a repertory of information on many disputed points of literary interest, and especially respecting various well-known anecdotes, the value of which only increases with the lapse of time.”—Morning Post.
Timbs’ English Eccentrics and Eccentricities. Stories of Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Impostures and Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes, Eccentric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. By John Timbs, F.S.A. An entirely New Edition, with about 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s. 6d.
Taylor’s History of Playing Cards. With Sixty curious Illustrations. 550 pp., crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, price 7s. 6d.
*** Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card Sharping, Gambling and Calculation, Cartomancy, Old Gaming-Houses, Card Revels and Blind Hookey, Picquet and Vingt-et-un, Whist and Cribbage, Tricks, &c.