8vo. 392pp. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece and 40 further illustrated engraved plates. Finely bound by Asprey of London (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, with thematic devices within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Light spotting to initial leaves, light browning to plates.

The second of several popular history books on English traditions and customs produced by English teacher and prolific non-fiction author Frederick William Hackwood (1851 – 1926) for publisher T. Fisher Unwin in the early twentieth century. His study of English inn-keeping culture begins with the tabernae of Roman Britain, progressing through the Medieval period and concluding with a discussion of Victorian tea-houses and pubs.