| Description | Hand-written book of two historical stories by William Stout, with pen-and-ink drawings and watercolour by A. G. Stout. With William Stout's bookplate inside front cover.
Biographical parody, including satirical descriptions of the theatre, music hall, vestry politics, marriage and married life. Written in Cockney dialect, with a distinct temperance, anti-radical and anti-Limehouse tone.
Pages 1-142: 'Life in Limehouse, or, Sketches from the career of Jim Buggins', including preface and illustrations (for example, page 60: 'Ancient Society of Vampires')
Pages 144-224: 'The History of Limus', including preface, a few illustrations and a chronology of real historical events in Limehouse on pages 219-224. |