Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7s. 6d.
Signboards:
Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By JacoB LARWOOD and JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. With nearly 100 Illustrations.
"Even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not pick out all Messrs.
Larwood and Hotten's plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation,"—Times.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 6s. 6d. Slang Dictionary, The:
Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal. An ENTIRELY Nzw EDITION, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged.
"We are glad to see the Slang Dictionary reprinted and enlarged. From a high scientific point of view this book is not to be despised. Of course it cannot fail to be amusing also. It contains the very vocabulary of unrestrained humour, oddity, and grotesqueness. In @ word, st provides valuable material both for the student of language and the student of human nature." —ACADEMY.
Exquisitely printed in miniature, cloth extra, gilt edges, 2s. 6d.
Smoker's Text-Book, The. By J. Hamer, F.R.S.L,
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 55. Spalding's Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers possessed by them, with Special Reference to Shakspere and his Works. By T. ALFRED SPALDING, LL.B.
"A very thoughtful and weighty book, which cannot but be welcome to every earnest student."— ACADEMY.
Crown 4to, uniform with "Chaucer for Children," with Coloured Illustrations, cloth gilt, 10s, 6d.
Spenser for Children.
By M. H. Towry. With Illustrations in Colours by WALTER J. MORGAN.
"Spenser has simply been transferred into plain prose, with here and there a line or stanza quoted, where the meaning and the diction are within a child's comprehension, and additional point is thus given to the narrative without the cost of obscurity. . . . Altogether the work has been well and carefully done." —The Times.
Demy 8vo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 21s,
Sword, The Book of the:
Being a History of the Sword, and its Use, in all Times and in afl Countries, By Captain RICHARD BURTON. With numerous Illustrations, [In preparation.
