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[Illustration:

  ANCIENT NATIVES OF BRITAIN, ENCAMPED NEAR COLCHESTER.

  (_From a curious Glyptic in possession of the Author._)]




                              THE OYSTER;

                          WHERE, HOW, AND WHEN
                                   TO
                           FIND, BREED, COOK,
                                  AND
                                EAT IT.

[Illustration]

                                LONDON:
                  TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
                               MDCCCLXI.




                                LONDON:
                WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTER, 37, BELL YARD,
                              TEMPLE BAR.




                               CONTENTS.


                               CHAPTER I.

                         THE OYSTER IN SEASON.

      The R. canon correct; Alimentary Qualities of the
      Oyster; Profitable Investment; Billingsgate, and
      London Consumption; English Oyster-beds; Jersey
      Oysters; French Oyster-beds on the Coast of Brittany       9

                              CHAPTER II.

                     ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE OYSTER.

      The Ancients; Oysters a Greek and Roman Luxury;
      Sergius Orata, and the Oyster-beds of Baia; Immense
      Consumption at Rome; Failure of the Circean and
      Lucrinian Oyster-beds under Domitian, and Introduction
      of Rutupians from Britain; Agricola, Constantine, and
      Helena; Athenian Oysters, and Aristides.                  21

                              CHAPTER III.

                     MODERN HISTORY OF THE OYSTER.

      Fall of the Rutupian Supremacy; Louis IV. and William
      of Normandy; Conquest