WINE, ALE,

BEER,

TOBACCO, COFFEE, &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).

D

George Bumstead

Go little book, and show the fool his face,
The knave his picture, and the sot his case;
Tell to each youth what is, and what's not fit,
And teach, to such as want, sobriety and wit.-
The Club; or, A Gray Cap for a Green Head.
By JAMES PUCKLE, 1733.

I am but a Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Wotton.

Come, Anecdote! with all thy graces come,

Relieve the grave-to mirth thy rites afford,

And crown the sparkling glass and hospitable board.—Cooke.

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.