62 results filtered with: London (England) - Social life and customs
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The art of living in London: a poem, in two cantos.
Smith, James, of Tewkesbury.Date: 1768- Books
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The female jockey club, or, A sketch of the manners of the age. [Twelve lines from Young] By the author of The former jockey club.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: --1794- Books
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The London spy compleat, in eighteen parts.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1753- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. Viz. An Account of the vast Number of Foreigners Yearly Imported. How Wales sends more Footmen than Gentlemen to London. A Reason for the Streets and Highways in the City and Liberty of Westminster being kept in no better Repair. A Description of the Coffee-Houses about Whitehall. A merry Differtation upon News-Papers, Authors, Printers, and Publishers. An entertaining Description of St. James's Park; how the Horse-Guards are worse Soldiers and better Subjects than the Foot-Guards. A remarkable Controversy between a Bawd and a Sodomite, on one of the Seats near Buckingham-House. Of a Person of Quality's Cloaths sold off his Back in the Mall by his Valet de Chambre. New Votes. Schemes and Designs of the Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters, An Account of the Exeter-'change Beauties, the Undertaker's Club-Feast, the Method of their obtaining and managing Funerals; and of a Miser's bequeathing his Body to the Royal Society to save the Expences of Interment. A Description of the Fleet-Street Coffee-Houses, Temple Beaus, Prison of Newgate, Ludgate-Hall, Black-Fryers, and St. Paul's Cathedral. An Account of the surprizing Revolution at the Theatre in the Hay-Market, and the wonderful happy Deliverance of these Nations from popish Italian Songs, and Common Sense. By Jack G--y, Tom W--ik--, and Mol' Fem--in
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: [1728]- Books
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The metamorphoses of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. A tale. After the manner of Fontaine. The third edition. To which is added, The Journal of a modern lady. By Dean Swift.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: [1731]- Books
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The connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general. ...
Colman, George, 1732-1794.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London. By Mr. Gay.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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The female jockey club, or A sketch of the manners of the age. Amongst other highly distinguished personages, male and female, celebrated in this work, are the following: Their most sacred Majesties The R-y-l B-t-sh P-nc-sses D-ch-ss of Y-k Her R-y-l H-n-ss P-nc-ss A-g-t-s F-d-ck, late lady A-g-ta M-r-y D-ch-ss of D-v-ns-re Lady Elizabeth F-st-r Comte de Fersan Lady C--per Sir Charles W-tw-th, K.B. Lord H-rv-y Dutchess of R-tl-nd Dutchess of B-df-d Lady L-de Charles M-ns-n Lord Ch-l...-de-ly Miss G-nn-ng Lord P-get Ducthess of G-d-n Col. St. L-g-r Mr. P-tt Late King of Sweden Lady W-r-n Mr. D-d-ss Lady B-th Mr. P-lt-n-y Mrs. R-b-s-n Late Lord Littleton Marchioness of S-l-sb-ry Col. T-lt-n P-ce of W-les Mr. Hugo M-yn-l, Senior Lady A-ch-r M-gr-v-ne of A-p-ch C. of B-ck-h-ms-re, late Mrs. H-b-t Mr. Harry Er-ngt-n Mr. J-kyll Mrs. B-st-w Mrs. H-st-r L-nch P-zzi Countess of S-ft-n Viscountess M-yn-d Quick the actor Lady M-l-neux Col. Fitzp-t-ck Lady W-ll-ce Abbe St. Fare Marquis de la Fayette Mr Wright the sheriffs' officer Lady L-c-n Mrs. C-ghl-n Mrs. Siddons Mr. P-wis Viscountess D-dl-y and W-rd Earl Sp-ne-r Late Col. Bosville Viscounte D-el-y and W-ed Viscounte s H-mpd-n Duke of M-tr-se Mr. Daniel H-les Miss W-st Miss Elizabeth J-ffr-es Mr. Fox Earl F-tzw-ll-m Lady Elizabeth L-ttr-l Earl of C-rh-mpt-n Dutchess of C-mb-l-nd Countess Tv-e-n-l General W-ts-n Col. C-wth-ne Lo-d D-l-v-l The Blue Stocking Society, &c. By the author of the former Jockey Club.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1794- Books
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England in miniature, or truth to some tune. A new ballad.
Date: [1729?]- Books
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The jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1792- Books
24 panels : an anthology comic to aid PTSD needs of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire / edited by Kieron Gillen, Steve Thompson & Rhona Martin.
Date: [2018]- Books
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A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, [f]rom the R-l-S-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. Their original, with characters of the most noted members; containing great [va]riety of entertaining discourses, erolicks, and adventures of the principal managers and members; a work of great use and curiosity. [C]ompil'd from the original papers of a gent. who [fr]equented those places upwards of twenty years.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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England in miniature, or truth to some tune. A new ballad.
Date: [1729]- Books
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The new London spy; or, a modern twenty-four hours ramble through the great British metropolis. ... Written by Sir John Fielding, junior, Richard King, Esq. and others.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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The female jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. ... By the author of the former Jockey club.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1794- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. ... To which is added a brief and merry character of Ireland, by a Berkshire gentleman ...
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: 1728- Books
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The complete modern London spy, for the present year, 1781; or, a real new, and universal disclosure, of the secret, nocturnal, and diurnal transactions, in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. ... Written by a gentleman of fortune. Revised, corrected, and improved, by Richard King, ...
Gentleman of fortune.Date: [1781]- Books
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Hell upon earth: or the town in an uproar. Occasion'd by the late horrible scenes of forgery, perjury, street-robbery, murder, sodomy, and other shocking impieties. Of the Encrease of the Hempen Manufactory and the Decrease of the Woollen Manufactory; shewing that Goals and Gibbets are become as useful as Guards and Garisons, and Pillories as necessary as P-ns. Of Peoples being almost under the Necessity of carrying Pistols instead of Prayer-Books to their Parish Churches. A surprizing Account of the Numbers of People who Live by preparing and vending Liquors, and of those that Die by drinking them: With the vast plenty of Diseases and Doctors, and the great Scarcity of Physicians. An Account of Fox-Hunters, Peace-Hunters, Money Hunters, Men-Hunters, Whore-Hunters, Death-Hunters, Levee-Hunters, News-Hunters. Of the Subscribing Coffee-Mens pretty Project for printing their Customers Prittle Prattle. Of Lady B-is Necessary House being broke open and robb'd, as published in the Coffee-Mens Paper, with the strange Effect it had on a Scotch Subscribing Coffee-Man's Wife, who refunded her Breakfast upon reading the Relation.
Date: 1729- Books
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The history of the London club[s] or, The citizens pastime, Particulakly [sic], The lying club, The Yorkshire club, The thieves club, The beggars club, The broken shopkeepers club, The basket VVomans club. With a sermon preach'd to a gang of high-way-men. Part I. By the author of the London spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1709- Books
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Low-Life: or one half of the world, knows not how the other half live. Being a critical account of what is transacted by people of almost all religious, nations, circumstances, and sizes of understanding, in the Twenty-Four Hours between Saturday-Night and Monday-Morning. In a true Description of a Sunday, As it is usually spent within the Bills of Mortality. Calculated for the Twenty-First of June. With an address to the ingenious and ingenuous Mr. Hogarth.
Legg, Thomas, active 1755.Date: [1755?]- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. Viz. An account of the vast numbers of forreigners yearly imported. How Wales sends more Footmen than Gentlemen to London, with an Account of their Behaviour. A Reason why the Streets and Highways in the City and Liberty of Westminster, are kept in no better Repair. A Description of the Coffee-Houses about Whitehall. A merry Dissertation upon News-Papers, Authors, Printers, and Publishers. An entertaining Description of St. James's Park; how the Horse Guards are worse Soldiers and better Subjects than the Foot Guards: A remarkable Rencounter between a Bawd and a Sodomite, on one of the Seats near Buckingham-House. Of a Person of Quality's Cloaths sold off his Back ... the Mall by Auction, by his ... Chambre; and of the Duke of Wh--ton's Challenging a Consumptive upon Constitution-Hill. New Votes, Schemes and Designs of the Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters. An Account of the Exeter-'change Beauties, the Undertaker's Club-Feast, the Method of their obtaining and managing Funerals; and of a Miser's bequeathing his Body to the Royal Society to save the Expence of Interment. Practices of Petty-Foggers expos'd. A description of the Fleet-Street Coffee-Houses, Temple Beaus, Prison of Newgate, Ludgate-Hill, Black-Fryers, and St. Paul's. Of the Fire-Makers, Dog-Stealers, False-Pollers, and Affidavit-Makers, new Trading Companies set up in London. An Account of the Pride, Insolencies, and Humours of the City Apprentices; with many other notable and diverting Relations. To which is added, a brief and merry character of Ireland, by a Berkshire gentleman lately return'd from that Kingdom.
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: [1728]- Books
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The art of living in London, a poem.
Smith, James, of Tewkesbury.Date: 1793- Books
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A trip through London: containing observations on men and things. Viz. An account of the vast number of foreigners yearly imported. How Wales sends more Footmen than Gentlemen to London. Why the Streets and Highways in the City and Liberty of Westminster, are kept in no better Repair. Of a Foreign Minister's protecting more broken Shop-Keepers in the Bills of Mortality, than his Master has Subjects in his Dominions. Character of a well bred Lady; or, a Wife of Mode. Votes Schemes and Designs of the Irish Society of Affidavit-Makers and Fortune-Hunters, for the Year 1728. Dr. F----d villify'd by the Upholders Company: His Practice the ruin of their Business. A Reason why most Beaus are Blockheads, and Poetry and Poverty inseperable Companions. Of a Christmas Entertainment at the House of a High Church Citizen in Farringdon Ward. An Essay towards proving Little Britain to be a part of his Majesty's Dominions, in Opposition to the Principles and Practices of many of the Nonjuring and Popish Inhabitants. Of an honest Protestant Ald-n's proposing to Insure the Church, State and Trade, of the three Kingdoms, against the utmost Efforts of Sp--n R-me, H-ll, and the D-v-l, and the D. of Wh--t--n, for half a Crown: With many other Entertaining Matters, to which the Reader is referr'd.
Jones, Erasmus, -1740.Date: [1728]- Books
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The female jockey club, or a sketch of the manners of the age. ... By the author of the former Jockey club.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: 1794- Books
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The connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general. ...
Colman, George, 1732-1794.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]-1756