The 29th year of this resonantly Victorian publication, with a host of useful advertisements and information on various trades, hotels and amusements in London and satellite ‘fashionable’ resorts (Brighton, Isle of Wight, The Channel Islands, etc.). Included are numerous full-page illustrations and "An Album of Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities, Managers of Theatres etc. and places of Amusement" (pp. 221-330), with portraits of Madame Adelina Patti, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Madame Melba and many, many more. We have handled a number of different years of this publication and the contents vary considerably.