Theodore Hook's Choice Humorous Works, with his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author. Portraits, Facsimiles, and Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, 600 pages, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.
⁂ "As a wit and humorist of the highest order his name will be preserved. His political songs and jeux d'esprit, when the hour comes for collecting them, will form a volume of sterling and lasting attraction!"—J. G. Lockhart.
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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 old London Clubs—the Blue Stocking, Kit Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, One o'Clock, the Civil, and hundreds of others; together with Tom's, Dick's, Button's, Ned's, Will's, and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century. A full account of the great modern clubs of Pall Mall and St. James's is also given. The book is a mine of anecdote.
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 numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600 pages, 7s. 6d.