Hints on Hats, adapted to the Heads of the People, by HENRY MELTON, of Regent-street. With curious Woodcuts of the various styles of Hats worn at different periods.
Anecdotes of eminent and fashionable personages are given, and a fund of interesting information relative to the History of Costume and change of tastes may be found scattered through its pages.
This day, handsomely bound, pp. 550, price 7s. 6d.,
History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their Use in Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune-telling, and Card-Sharping. Edited by the late Rev. Ed. S. Taylor, B.A., and others. With Sixty curious Illustrations on toned paper.
With Anecdotes of
- Skill and Sleight of Hand.
- Gambling and Calculation.
- Cartomancy and Cheating.
- Old Games and Gaming-houses.
- Card Revels and Blind Hookey.
- Piquet and Vingt-et-un.
- Whist and Cribbage.
- Old-Fashioned Tricks.
“A highly-entertaining volume.”—Morning Post.
This most amusing work, introducing the reader to a curious chapter of our social history, gives an interesting account, replete with anecdotes, of the most popular and widely-known pastime which has ever been invented by man for his amusement. A more instructive and entertaining book could not be taken in hand for a pleasant hour’s reading.
Hone’s Every-Day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, incident to each of the 365 Days in Past and Present Times:—Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, forming a complete History of the Year, and a perpetual Key to the Almanack, together four very thick vols. 8vo, with seven hundred and thirty woodcuts, new cloth, good paper (sells at 34s.), only 24s. The same in half calf, neat, 36s.
One of the most delightful works that can be imagined for half-hour readings. Wm. Hone was one of the very few authors who could invest generally dry subjects with a peculiar charm that made them readable.