For 20 years, satirical gentlemen?s quarterly ''The Chap'' has been providing chaps all over the world with crucial advice on sartorial rectitude and anarcho-dandyist etiquette. ''The Best of The Chap'' brings together in one volume all the features from the last 100 issues that have defined the publication?s manifesto. It includes features from the earliest editions, when ''The Chap'' was a slim pamphlet taken by a discreet handful of dissolute dandies, such as Dressing For Tennis, The Semiotics of Smoking and Sartorial Agony. As the popularity of the publication grew, so did the breadth of its content, and you will find features on subjects as diverse as gastronomy, cricket, military manoeuvres, millinery, vintage events, beatniks, birdwatching, science and boozing.

Where else, for example, could you read about how to build a medium-sized Hadron Collider in your garden shed?00No other publication has single-handedly championed the forgotten principles of the English gentleman, while simultaneously charting