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Additions and corrections to the first edition of Mr. Pennant's account of London.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster, the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality. To which are added, Some proper cautions to the Merchants, Tradesmen, and Shop-Keepers; Journeymen, Apprentices, Porters, Errand Boys, Book-Keepers, and Inn-Keepers; also very necessary for every Person going to London either on Business or Pleasure. By Sir John Fielding, One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, and Surry, and for the City and Liberty of Westminster.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The london adviser and guide: containing every instruction and information useful and necessary to persons living in London and coming to reside there; In order to enable them to enjoy Security and Tranquility, and conduct their Domestic Affairs with Prudence and Economy. Together with an Abstract Of all those Laws which regard their Protection against the Frauds, Impositions, Insults and Accidents to which they are there liable. By the Rev. Dr. Trusler, Useful also to Foreigners.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A tour to London; or, new observations on England, and its inhabitants. By M. Grosley, F. R. S. Member of the Royal Academies of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent, LL. D. and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. in two volumes. ...
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718-1785.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Le voyage forcé, ou manière de tirer avantage des circonstances; tiré des mémoires d'un homme de lettres, qui a fait un long séjour en Angleterre, & en a observé les mœurs & les usages. Par C. H. Nirel, ...
Nirel, C. H.Date: 1778[1777]- Books
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Of London.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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London unmask'd: or the new town spy. Exhibiting a striking picture of the world as it goes. In a Ramble through the Regions of Novelty, Whim, Fashion and Taste, as found in the Cities of London and Westminster, Their purlieus and vicinities. Containing a Complete Picture of the metropolis and its inhabitants. With the various Humours, Follies, Foibles, Vices, and Absurdities, generally practised throughout London and its Environs. Also A full and just Display of the most Striking Scenes exhibited in the gay circles, the theatres, gardens, and other public places of Modern Fashionable Entertainment. Including A General and Picturesque Representation of the most singular Characters that inhabit this great metropolis: Whether considered as Vicious, Ridiculous, Humorous, or anyways worthy the Pen of Satire: Particularly Fortune-Hunters Matrimonial Brokers Modern Messelinas Dissipated Fops Demireps Sycophants Loungers, or Time-Killers Military Fribbles French, Italian, and other Foreign Leaches Duellists Rapacious Quacks Griping Usurers Black Legs Body Snatchers, &c. &c. The whole representing striking caricatures of the Various Inhabitants of the Great Metropolis, as in different ways they run, ̀̀some to undo, and some to be undone.'' By the man in the moon.
Date: [1784?]- Books
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Old Rome and London compared, the first in its full glory, and the last in its present state. By which it plainly Appears, That Lipsivs and Vossivs are Egregiously Mistaken, in their Over-Stretched, Fulsom, and Hyperbolical Account of Old Rome; And That London, as it is at Present, Exceeds it much in its Extent, Populousness and many other Advantages. The second edition. To which is added, a comparison between the beauties, &c. of old Rome and London. By a person of quality.
Souligné, de.Date: 1710- Books
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A journey to London, in the year, 1698. After the ingenious method of that made by Dr. Martin Lyster to Paris, in the same year, &c. Written originally in French, by Monsieur Sorbiere, and newly translated into English.
King, William, 1663-1712.Date: 1704- Books
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A computation of the increase of London, and parts adjacent; with some causes thereof, and remarks thereon: particularly, With Respect to the Influence such Increase of the Capital may have on the Body of the Nation, its Constitution and Liberties.
Date: Printed in the Year 1719