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THE SUBSCRIPTION ROOM AT BROOKES S. 



Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in Lon- 

 don. With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostel- 

 RIES, and Taverns. By John Times, F.S.A. New Edition, 

 with NUMEROUS Illustrations, drawn expressly. Crown 8vo, 

 cloth extra, 6oo pages, 'js. 6d. 



•** A Companion to " The History of Sign-Boards" It abounds in quaint 

 stories o/tAeBlue Stocking, Kit-Kat, Beef Steak, Robin Hood, Mohocks, Scriblerus, 

 One o'clock, the Civil, and hundreds of other Clubs; together with Tom's, Dick's, 

 Button's, Ned's, Will's, and the famous Coffee Houses of the last century. 



**The book supplies a much-felt want. The club is the avenue to general society 

 at the present day, and Mr. Timbs gives the entrie to the club. The scholar and 

 antiquary will also find the work a repertory of information on many disputed 

 points of literary interest, and especially respecting various well-known anecdotes, 

 the value of which only increases with the lapse of time." — Morning Post. 



Timbs' English Eccentrics and Ec- 

 centricities. Stories of Wealth and Fashion, Delusions, Impos- 

 tures and Fanatic Missions, Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes, 

 Eccentric Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. By John 

 Timbs, F.S.A. An enlh-ely New Edition, with about 50 Illustra- 

 tions. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 600. pages, 7^. td. 



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