Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42908-h.htm or 42908-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42908/42908-h/42908-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42908/42908-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/dickensianinnsta00matziala DICKENSIAN INNS AND TAVERNS * * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ THE INNS AND TAVERNS OF PICKWICK With thirty-one illustrations. Large Crown 8vo. Second Edition. 10/6 net. "The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick" has proved one of the most successful books of the season. The reviewers have been unanimous in its praise, and in speaking of its value and qualities have used such adjectives as famous, friendly, entertaining, delightful, well-informed, irresistible, valuable, fascinating, jolly, glowing, jovial, great, favourite, charming, congenial, and agreed that it is the "final authority and worthy of its mighty subject." LONDON: CECIL PALMER * * * * * * [Illustration: JOHN BROWDIE AND FANNY SQUEERS ARRIVE AT THE SARACEN'S HEAD _Drawn by T. Onwhyn_] DICKENSIAN INNS & TAVERNS by B. W. MATZ Editor of "The Dickensian" Author of "The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick" etc., etc. With Thirty-Nine Illustrations by T. Onwhyn, Charles G. Harper, L. Walker, F. G. Kitton, G. M. Brimelow and from Photographs and Old Engravings London Cecil Palmer Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, W.C. I First Edition 1922 Copyright Printed in Great Britain by Burleigh Ltd. Bristol TO RIDGWELL CULLUM CONTENTS _Chapter_ _Page_ PREFACE 13 I DICKENS AND INNS 15 II OLIVER TWIST 22 III NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: THE SARACEN'S HEAD 32 IV NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (_continued_) 49 V BARNABY RUDGE: THE MAYPOLE 72 VI BARNABY RUDGE (_continued_) AND THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 89 VII MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT 105 VIII DOMBEY AND SON 132 IX DAVID COPPERFIELD 144 X BLEAK HOUSE, LITTLE DORRIT, HARD TIMES 169 XI A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS 178 XII OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 191 XIII EDWIN DROOD, AND THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES 217 XIV SKETCHES BY BOZ, AND THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER 239