Excerpt from Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive and Reminiscent, With Some Account of the Coffee Houses, Clubs, Etc Possibly Mr. Sala may have visited both the Spread Eagle and Joe's, and after so long a lapse of years, close on half a century, a little mixing of the two is very pardonable to one who was only an occasional diner in the city. I was a daily customer at that time of one or other of the chop-houses in that neighbourhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.