CURIOSITIES OF LONDON. Exhibiting the most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis; with nearly Sixty Years’ Personal Recollections. By John Timbs, F.S.A. New Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, 21s.
⁂ “A most valuable and interesting work, and a mine of information to all who desire any particulars about London, past and present. It contains nearly 1,000 closely printed pages.”
Beef and Liberty.
CLUBS AND CLUB-LIFE IN LONDON. With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns. By John Timbs, F.S.A. New Edition, uniform with the “History of Signboards;” with Numerous Illustrations, drawn expressly for this Popular Edition. Crown 8vo, 600 pages, 7s. 6d.
LONDON CHARACTERS: The Humour, Pathos, and Peculiarities of London Life. By Henry Mayhew (Author of “London Labour and the London Poor”) and other Writers. With upwards of 70 Characteristic Illustrations of London Life. Crown 8vo, 480 pages, 7s. 6d.
KNIGHT’S (Charles) PICTORIAL HISTORY OF LONDON, Ancient and Modern. With nearly 700 Engravings of Buildings, Antiquities, Costumes, Remarkable Characters, Curiosities, &c., &c. 6 vols., imp. 8vo, bound in 3, cloth neat, 35s.
⁂ The most delightful book ever written about Old and Modern London. It is a perfect mine of information, and should be in every English Library. If looked at from the point of cheapness alone, the work is a perfect marvel, containing as it does more than 2,500 large and handsomely printed pages, crowded with pictures.
New Books of Humour.
See also “Artemus Ward,” “Mark Twain,” and “Bret Harte.”