Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 580 pp., 7s. 6d.
Bull and Mouth.
"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 various old signs which were formerly hung from taverns and other houses.
CHARLES DICKENS' EARLY SKETCHES.
Sketches of Young Couples, Young Ladies and Young Gentlemen. By "Quiz" (Charles Dickens). With 18 Steel-plate Illustrations by "Phiz" (H. K. Browne). A New Edition, crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 4s. 6d.
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