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uccellobooks Store Untitled Document Welcome to Uccello Books! Item Description A wonderful vintage book on the famed pub, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese of London, England. Includes many vintage breweriana advertisements in the front and back of book. Numerous black-and-white illustrations and photographic plates. Bound in publisher's original brown paper wrappers with title and illustration to front cover, this softcover book measures 130 by 200 mm with 92 pages. All paper edges uncut. A great piece of this famous pub's memorabilia! Please see below for detailed information, a replication of the title page as well as more photographs: THE BOOK OF THE CHEESE Being Traits and Stories of "YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE," Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, London SIXTH EDITION LONDON : "YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE," Wine Office Court, next to 145 Fleet Street, E.C. 1913 Item Synopsis Information courtesy of wikipedia.org: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is an old public house in the City of London, England, located just off Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is one of a number of pubs in London to have been rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666. There has been a pub at this location since 1538. While there are several older pubs which have survived because they were beyond the reach of the fire, or like The Tipperary on the opposite side of Fleet Street because they were made of stone, this pub continues to attract interest due to the curious lack of natural lighting inside which generates its own gloomy charm. Some of the interior wood panelling is nineteenth century, some older, perhaps original. The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th century Carmelite Monastery which once occupied the site. In the bar room are posted plaques showing famous people who were regulars. The pub is also the place where the FDC, a society formed by pupils of Culford School, a public school in Suffolk, first met in the 1930s. This society is a closed group, open only to male prefects who are invited and initiated. The pub is currently operated by and tied to the Samuel Smith Brewery. There are several famous literary figures associated with the place: Oliver Goldsmith, Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Dr. Samuel Johnson are all said to have been 'regulars'. However, there is no recorded evidence that Dr Johnson ever visited the pub, only that he lived close by (see Dr Johnson's House). Charles Dickens had been known to use the establishment frequently, and due to the pub's gloomy charm it is easy to imagine that Dickens modelled some of his darker characters there. The Cheshire Cheese Pub is famously referred to in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: following Charles Darnay’s acquittal on charges of high treason, Sydney Carton invites him to dine, "drawing his arm through his own" Sydney leads him to Fleet Street "up a covered way, into a tavern … where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine". According to the Betty Crocker cookbook, both Dickens and Ben Jonson dined on Welsh rabbit at this pub, despite the fact that the latter died almost a century before the dish is first known to have existed. Item Condition Book in VERY GOOD condition or better. Binding very strong and intact. No writing/signatures/bookplates within the book. Moderate wear to cover wrappers with bumping/creasing to corners. Overall, a very handsome copy! Shipping & Handling All books are shipped with extreme care and only NEW materials are used. Each and every book, regardless of end price and importance, is water-proofed and bubble-wrapped with no corners cut. $5.50 shipping and handling for small books within the United States. $9.00 shipping and handling for medium to large books within the United States. Oversized and coffee-table books will be more, please enquire at the end of or during auction for shipping fees. Customers may choose whether to insure the items they prefer, but in the event of loss by the Post Office, we cannot be held responsible. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS VERY WELCOME, please contact me during or at the end of auction for shipping fees and details. In the event of an error with the item's description, returns are accepted within 3 days for a complete refund. Thanks so much, and good luck! Please see my other items under UCCELLOBOOKS on eBay!
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