Author: WARD, EDWARD; Attributed to.
Title: A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms: or, a Guide to Good Fellows. Being a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Most Eminent Publick Houses, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster with A Hint on the Props (or principal Custormes) of each House. In a Method so plain that any Thirsty Person (of the meanest Capacity) may easily find the nearest Way from one House to another. Dedicated to the Brewers. Two parts in one volume.
Description: Demy 8vo; pp. 56, 48; illustrated with numerous woodcuts, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, spine worn and splitting, internally very good. London; Printed and Sold by T. Bickerston, at the Crown in Paternoster-Row; n.d. (1866). The tracts were originally published in 1720. Curious and amusing wood-cuts of all the signs of public-houses celebrated in the work accompany it, a page being devoted to each.

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