ADVERTISEMENT.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV.
INDEX.
INCLUDING THE
RURAL AND DOMESTIC RECREATIONS,
MAY GAMES, MUMMERIES, SHOWS, PROCESSIONS, PAGEANTS, & POMPOUS SPECTACLES
FROM
THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY JOSEPH STRUTT.
ILLUSTRATED BY
One Hundred and Forty Engravings.
IN WHICH ARE REPRESENTED
MOST OF THE POPULAR DIVERSIONS;
SELECTED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS.
A NEW EDITION, WITH A COPIOUS INDEX,
BY WILLIAM HONE,
AUTHOR OF THE EVERY-DAY BOOK, TABLE BOOK, YEAR BOOK, ETC.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG,
73, CHEAPSIDE.
1845.
J. Haddon, Printer, Castle Street, Finsbury.