EVERY DAY BOOK, OR A GUIDE TO THE YEAR: DESCRIBING THE POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, SPORTS, CEREMONIES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND EVENTS, INCIDENT TO The Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES. BY WILLIAM HONE. WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX ENGRAVINGS. BY G. CRUIKSHANK, WILLIAMS, &c. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. WARD, LOCK & Co., LONDON: WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE. NEW YORK: BOND STREET. EVERY-DAY BOOK; OR, Everlasting Calendar OF POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, SPORTS, PASTIMES, CEREMONIES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND EVENTS, INCIDENT TO FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE YEAR, MONTHS, & SEASONS, AND A PERPETUAL KEY TO THE ALMANACK; INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF THE WEATHER, RULES FOR HEALTH AND CONDUCT, REMARKABLE BY WILLIAM HONE. I tell of festivals, and fairs, and plays, Of merriment, and mirth, and bonfire blaze; I tell of Christmas-mummings, new year's day. Of twelfth-night king and queen, and children's play; I tell of Valentines, and true-love's-knots, I tell of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, I tell of May-poles, hock-carts, wassalls, wakes, REESE IN TWO VOLUMES. WITH THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA VOLUME I. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR WILLIAM HONE BY HUNT AND CLARKE, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. lierrick |