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Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Ha...

Plays, Players and Playhouses at Home and Abroad - With Anecdotes of the Drama and the Stage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scienti...

Plays, Players and Playhouses at Home and Abroad - With Anecdotes of the Drama and the Stage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scienti...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from Coaching With Anecdotes of the Road Ancient Charioteeks - Celebrated Whips - Introduction Of Carriages Into England - Mr. Cresset's Pamphlet - The State Of The Roads In 1739 - Dangerous Conveyances - The Flying Coach Op 1669 - Dean Swift's Poetical Lines On His Journey To Chester - Discomforts Of Inside Travelling - Travelling In Bygone Days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from Pictures of Sporting Life and Character, Vol. 1 of 2 "What's in a name?" asks the great poet of nature, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Granted, we reply, still, in selecting the title for a book or literary article, nomenclature goes a great way, as every publisher and editor will vouch for. We have been led to these reflections, because, under the title of "Pictures of Sporting Life, " it is our intention to in...

Excerpt from Sport at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 of 2 There are few months which produce more gratification to the English country gentleman, the sportsman, and agriculturist than the month of August, for, while on the one hand the cultivator of broad acres reaps the produce of his labour, upon the other the lover of out-door amusements finds the stubble and turnip fields getting ready for himself and his well-trained pointers and setters to com...

Excerpt from Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences, Vol. 1 of 2My Mission to the Hague - Mistaken for a Russian General Flemish Account - Interview with the King of Holland - Awk ward Results of getting a Speech by Heart - A State Dinner at the Palace - Return to Paris Les Anglaises pour Rire Neglect of Duty - The Duke's Reprimand - A Dreadful Bore The Duke's Kindness - His General Order - M. De Lavalette and Sir Robert Wilson - The English ...

Excerpt from The Tuft-Hunter, Vol. 3 of 3 "Behold How London did pour out her citizens. The mayor and all his brethren in best sort!" Shakspeare. "Men may talk of country Christmasses, Their thirty pound buttered eggs, their pies of carps'tongues, Their pheasants drenched with ambergris, the carcases Of three fat wethers bruised for gravy, to Make sauce for a single peacock, yet their feasts Were fasts compared with the city's." Massinge...

Excerpt from Pictures of Sporting Life and Character, Vol. 2 of 2 A Sporting Tour in 1857 - Manly Games of Merry England - The Windsor Magistrates - What is Sauce for the Goose ought to be Sauce for the Gander - An arrival from India - Colonel Westerham, a bon-vivant from the Land of Bad Livers - Sayings and Doings of Past and Present Times - A Consultation - Bell's Life in London - A Dinner at the Garrick Club - The Spider's Crib - Sporting ...

Excerpt from Drafts on My Memory, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Men I Have Known, Things I Have Seen, Places I Have VisitedGoodwood - The late Duke of Richmond How to get a Present of Game - Sir James Graham - Admiral Rous Working the First Lord of the Admiralty - The Duke of yorkommander-in-chief v. First Lord - Late Duke of Beaufort - Frederick Delme Radcliffe - The Knebworth Epilogue - Yachting'and Hunting - The Noble Science A Night Ride to London He...