1830 The Every-Day Book and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

A lovely three volume set of works by English writer, satirist and bookseller, William Hone.

The first editions of the works, in half brown calf.

With a frontispiece to each volume, and numerous in text engravings throughout. 

This three volume set claims to be an everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, manners, customs and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times; forming a complete history of the year, months and seasons and a perpetual key to the almanac. 

Including accounts of the weather, rules for health and conduct, remarkable and important anecdotes, facts, and notices, in chronology, antiquities, topography, biography, natural history, art, science, and general literature.