⁂ This most amusing work has already passed through Five Editions, receiving everywhere the highest praise as “a clever and brilliant book.” To no other work of the present day have so many distinguished Artists contributed Illustrations. To the designs of George Cruikshank, John Leech, Julian Portch, “Phiz,” and other Artists, Sir Noel Paton, Millais, John Tenniel, Richard Doyle, and M. Ellen Edwards, have now contributed several exquisite pictures, thus making the New Edition—which is Twice the Size of the old one, and contains irresistibly funny pieces—the best book for the Drawing-room table now published.
AUSTIN’S (Alfred) THE SEASON: A Satire. Elegantly bound for the Drawing-room, 5s.
⁂ An entirely New Edition of this famous Work, it having been out of print seven years.
SIGNBOARDS: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. “A book which will delight all.”—Spectator. Fourth Edition, 580 pp., price 7s. 6d. only.
From the “Times.”
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.”—Review of three columns.
⁂ Nearly 100 most curious illustrations on wood are given, showing the various old signs which were formerly hung from taverns and other houses.
ROMANCE OF THE ROD: An Anecdotal History of the Birch, in Ancient and Modern Times. With some quaint Illustrations. Crown 8vo, handsomely printed.