The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . 85 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES TODDY AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE, hv W. Dendy Sadler ... ... ... Frontispiece SKKlcu^ by John Hassall ... ... Back of Frontispiece ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE ... facing p. \ *THE cosy corner in old CHESHIRE CHEESE ,, 13 DR. Johnsons chair ,, 28 AN INCIDENT AT THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE, by F. Cox , 29 THE BAR, by F. Cox ... „ 37 •THE WAY w^ by F. Cox ,, 44 the way out by F. Cox ,, 52 DR. Johnsons house in gough square, by Herbert Rai/ton ,,
The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . 85 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES TODDY AT THE CHESHIRE CHEESE, hv W. Dendy Sadler ... ... ... Frontispiece SKKlcu^ by John Hassall ... ... Back of Frontispiece ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE ... facing p. \ *THE cosy corner in old CHESHIRE CHEESE ,, 13 DR. Johnsons chair ,, 28 AN INCIDENT AT THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE, by F. Cox , 29 THE BAR, by F. Cox ... „ 37 •THE WAY w^ by F. Cox ,, 44 the way out by F. Cox ,, 52 DR. Johnsons house in gough square, by Herbert Rai/ton ,, 61 princess MARY WITH THE LORDMAYOR AT YE OLDE CHESHIREcheese „ 76 IN TEXT PAGE HEADPIECE—A STORIED TAVERN I STAIRCASE IN old CHESHIRE CHEESE, by Herbert Railton ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 THE JOHNSONIAN CORNER 20 CHESHIRE COURT AT SIDE OF OLD CHESHIRE CHZ-E-SK^^ by Herbert Rat!fon 25 FRONTISPIECE OF BILL OF FARE, by George Cruikshank 78 ADVERTISEMENTS. RENOWNED Sherries and Ports. SPECIALITIES. FineOld Brown Sherry Gonzalez Old Portugal Port A Grand Type of a Fine OldTaWny Wine, (See inriMS i:^isi:.). CHAPTER I EARLY HISTORY OF YE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE Time consecrates;And wliat is grey with age becomes religion.—Schillkr. Old London is fast disappearing off the face of theearth. One by one its ancient taverns have gone, or ifthe names famihar to our ancestors have been retained,the hand of the builder has been laid remorselesslyon the structures our forefathers knew, and theyhave been transformed beyond recognition. One ofthem, however, survives, untouched by the hand oftime, spared by the vitality of the traditions, literary 2 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese and other, which it enshrines, and that is the CheshireCheese. Though its story reaches back long beforethe eighteenth century, it is with the memory ofDr. Johnson and his more brilliant contemporariesthat it is very largely associated in the minds of is in a special sense Londons living memorial ofthe great
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