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A collection of essays, antiquarian notes, and light fiction that recreates popular customs, pastimes, and entertainments of earlier England. It assembles songs, poems, anecdotes, and engraved portraits of jesters, players, conjurers, and mountebanks, alongside commentary on wakes, festive revels, and street amusements. Humorous sketches and reproduced illustrations accompany scholarly curiosities and facsimiles, combining antiquarian research with playful narration to evoke the sights, sounds, and social rituals of bygone popular culture.
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