. The complete angler; or, The contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. Fishing. BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CHATTO &- WINDUS. 31 Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remark- able Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden HOTTEN. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, *js, 6d. *' It Is not fair on the part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author's book, thusfilching 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 instan
. The complete angler; or, The contemplative man's recreation, being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing. Fishing. BOOKS PUBLISHED BY CHATTO &- WINDUS. 31 Signboards: Their History. With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remark- able Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden HOTTEN. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, *js, 6d. *' It Is not fair on the part of a reviewer to pick out the plums of an author's book, thusfilching 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 tilings are so numerous â as",to defy the most wholesale ;âr^^ Times. "elp me through this world ! *** Nearly 100 most curiousillustraiions on wood are given, showing the signs which were formerly hung from, taverns, dx^ HANDBOOK OF COLLOQUIALISMS. The Slang Dictionary: ;^' Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal: An Entirely New Edition, revised f^^iS;/throughout, and considerably Enlarged, containing upwards of a thousand more words than the last edition. Crown 8vo, with Curious Illustrations, cloth extra, 6s. 6d.^ " Peculiarly a book which ' no gentleman's library THE WEDGE AND THE WOODEN should be Without,'while to costermongers and thieves SPOON. it is absolutely ;âDispatch. " Interesting and curious. Contains as many as it was possible to collect of all the words and phrases of modern slang in use at the present ;âPublic Opinion. " In every way a great improvement on the edition of 1864. Its uses as a dictionary of the very vulgar tongue do not require to be ;âNotes and Queries. "Compiled with most exacting care, and based on the best ;âStandard. *'Ih 'The Slang Dictionary' we have not only a book that reflects credit upon the philologist; it is also a volume that will repay, at any time,
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