62 results filtered with: London (England) - Social life and customs
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Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London. By Mr. Gay.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: [1716]- Books
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The metamorphosis of the town: or, a view of the present fashions. A tale: after the manner of Fontaine. The second edition. To which is added, The journal of a modern lady. In a letter to a person of quality. By Dr. Swift.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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A trip through the town. Containing observations on the customs and manners of the age. ... Together with sundry other curious and diverting particulars.
Date: [1735?]- 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 religions, 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: [1764]- Books
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A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R-l-s-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. ... original with characters of the most noted members, containing great variety of entertaining discourses, frolicks, and adventures of the principal managers and members, a work of great use and curiosity. Compil'd from the original papers of a gent. who frequented those places upwards of twenty years.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The art of living in London. A poem.
Smith, James, of Tewkesbury.Date: 1793- Books
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Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London. To which is added Rural sports. A poem. Inscribed to Mr. Pope. By Mr. Gay.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.Date: 1727- Books
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A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, From the R-l-S-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. Their Original with Characters of the most noted Members, containing great Variety of entertaining Discourses, Frolicks, and Adventures of the principal Managers and Members, a Work of great Use and Curiosity. Compil'd from the original Papers of a Gentleman who frequented those Places upwards of Twenty Years.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: [1756]- Books
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A ramble through London: containing observations on men and things, viz. some account of the vast number of foreigners and their behaviour. Of the Scotch, Irish, and Welsh; the first, filling us with Quacks, Beggars and Pedlars; the next with Robbers, Bullies and Evidence and the last, with Footmen, Porters, and Draymen, instead of Gentlemen. A merry Description of the Court End of the Town, and of the City. A Conversation between a Sodomitical Baronet, a Bawd, and the Author, on a Bench in St. James's Park. The Resolutions and Schemes of the Affidavit Club, or Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters for the current Year. Female Conversation described, and the Band of Petticoat Pensioners in the City. The Management of Authors, Printers, and Publishers. The insufferable Behaviour of City 'prentices. Practices of Death-Hunters; the Humours of the Royal Exchange. Together with a small collection of the most refin'd jests from St. James's. And many other curious Particulars touching the Town. By a true-born Englishman.
True-born Englishman.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A net for the d---l: or, the town display'd. A satyr. Written in a plain English stile.
Date: Printed in the Year, 1705- Books
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The tricks of the town: or, ways and means for getting money. Wherein The various Lures, Wiles, and Artifices, practised by the Designing and Crafty upon the Weak and Unwary, are fully exposed. Recommended to the serious perusal of all adventurers and sharers in bubble-undertakings, the Pursuers of Pennyworths, and Bargain-Buyers. Chiefly collected from some papers of the ingenious Mr. John Thomson, scattered between Laurence-Pountney's-Hill and Dover.
Thomson, John, active 1732.Date: [1732]- Books
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The art of living in London: A poem.
Smith, James, of Tewkesbury.Date: 1784