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Athena Library of English Studies

Part 3, Vols 7-9: Social Life, 3rd Series

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クラブの歴史

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ISBN 4-902708-29-9  ・  菊判 

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Contents

Volume 7. John Timbs Clubs and Club Life in London, with Anecdotes of Its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns, from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time (1872)

ISBN 4-902708-30-2  •  560 pp., 19 pl.

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Clubs: origin of clubs; early political clubs; street clubs; blasphemous clubs; mug-house clubs; eccentric clubs; Jacobite clubs; economy of clubs; whist clubs; chess clubs; Douglas Jerrold’s clubs; and accounts of numerous specific clubs such as the Apollo, Kit-Kat, Tatler’s, Almack’s, Brooke’s, White’s, Boodle’s, Beef-Steak Society, Watier’s, Robin Hood, Blue-Stocking, Dilettanti Society, Royal Naval, Oriental, Garrick, Oxford and Cambridge, Crockford’s, etc. • Coffee-Houses: early coffee-houses; coffee-houses in the eighteenth century; and accounts of such establishments as Garraway’s, Dick’s, Lloyd’s, Baker’s, Don Saltero’s, Smyrna, St James’s, Will’s, Chapter, Turk’s Head, Grecian, Peele’s, etc. • Taverns: the taverns of old London; tavern life of Sir Richard Steele; Piccadilly inns and taverns; Islington taverns; Marylebone and Paddington taverns; Kensington and Brompton taverns; Knightsbridge taverns; Pimlico taverns; Lambeth: Vauxhall taverns and gardens; freemasons’ lodges; theatrical taverns; and accounts of many renowned inns and taverns • Index

 

 

Volume 8. Ralph Nevill London Clubs: Their History and Treasures (1907)

ISBN 4-902708-31-0  •  326 pp., 9 pl. (1 col.)

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The Origin of Clubs in Coffee-Houses and Taverns • Curious Clubs of the Past: Pratt’s; Beefsteak clubs, old and new • Clubs of St James’s Street: Boodle’s, Arthur’s, and White’s • Brook’s, the Cocoa-Tree, and the Tatched House • Changes in Club Life and Ways • Elections, Committees, Regulations, Rules • Late Sittings, Fines, Cards, Characters, Supper Clubs • Accounts of specific clubs such as the Travellers’, Oriental, St James’s, Turf, Bachelors’, Union, Carlton, Conservative, Reform, National, Oxford and Cambridge, Army and Navy, Caledonian, Athenaeum, Dilettanti, Cosmopolitan, Kit-Kat, Royal Societies’, Burlington Fine Arts’, Garrick, Jockey, etc. • Index

 

 

Volume 9. John Ashton The History of Gambling in England (1898)

ISBN 4-902708-32-9  •  296 pp.

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Topics discussed include: difference between gaming and gambling; dicing in England; celebrated gamblers; cards; description of a gaming-house, 1669; royal gambling discontinued by George iii; gambling in church; legislation; peeresses as gaming-house keepers; raids; gambling at Bath; gambling ladies; gambling clubs; gambling by the English at Paris; hanging, the penalty for losing; suicide; description of the principal gaming-houses in the West End in 1817; Select Committee on Gaming, 1844; wagers and betting; betting in the House of Commons; anecdotes of betting; horse racing; bookmaking; turf frauds; gambling on race courses; lotteries, government loans; commencement of the Bank of England; stock jobbers; the Stock Exchange; the South Sea bubble; bubbles of 1825; railway mania; early marine assurance, Lloyd’s, curious insurances; life insurance; etc.a rake-helly set; private life at the pavilion • The Increasing Popularity of Brighton • The Brighton Road • Sea-Bathing and the Baths • A Day at Brighton: the Master of the Ceremonies’ balls and assemblies; minor amusements • Brighton since George IV • Appendices • Index