Publisher's Synopsis
"There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimylookingshop near Seven Dials, over which, inweather-worn yellow lettering, the name of "C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed.The contents of its window were curiously variegated.They comprised some elephant tusks and an imperfectset of chessmen, beads and weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several moth-eatenstuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an oldfashionedcabinet, a flyblown ostrich egg or so, somefishing-tackle, and an extraordinarily dirty, emptyglass fish-tank
