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NOTICE.

In consequence of illness of the Compiler, lasting ten weeks, the printing of the work has been suspended. 1250 copies of the first 150 pages, together with 23 reams of Double Crown Paper, and the Manuscript sufficient to form a volume of 400 or 450 pages, will be offered for Sale in one lot, at the Auction Rooms of Messrs. HODGSON, Chancery Lane, London, sometime in October or November next.

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Bt from T.D. Welvie's

SPECIMEN OF

A BIBLIOGRAPHY

OF

OLD BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

THE MUG, GLASS, BOTTLE,

THE LOVING CUP,

AND

THE SOCIAL PIPE.

INTERSPERSED WITH TITLES OF CURIOUS OLD BOOKS,
ON HEALTH AND LONG LIFE.

WITH ILLUSTRATIVE FRAGMENTS,

IN PROSE AND VERSE;

Spiced with Anecdotes of Celebrated Topers.

Compiled by me,
G. B.

DISS:

PRINTED FOR THE COMPILER, BY LUSHER BROTHERS.

1885.

WINE, ALE, BEER,

TOBACCO, CQFFEE, &c.

"I love Anecdotes. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in comparison of what we might get."-DR. JOHNSON. (Boswell's Tour).