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Title: The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

Author: Warwick William Wroth

Arthur Edgar Wroth

Release date: August 28, 2023 [eBook #71511]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Macmillan and Co, 1896

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONDON PLEASURE GARDENS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ***

THE
LONDON PLEASURE GARDENS
OF
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Drawn in the Gardens, on the night of August the 19th 1833, by Robert Cruikshank Esqr.——

C.H. SIMPSON, ESQR. M.C.R.G.V.

For upwards of 36 Years,—with a distant view of his Colossal Likeness in Variegated Lamps.

To C. H. Simpson, Esqr. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall,—this Print, taken in the Sixty Third year of his age, on the Night of his benefit is, by express permission, most respectfully dedicated by his obliged and humble Servant,—the Publisher.

London. Published by W. Hidd. 14. Chandos St.t West Strand, August 20.th 1833.

THE LONDON
PLEASURE GARDENS
OF
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BY

WARWICK WROTH, F.S.A.

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ASSISTED BY

ARTHUR EDGAR WROTH

WITH SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1896

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved

“A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant and it is very cheap and pleasant going thither.... But to hear the nightingale and the birds, and here fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew’s trump, and here laughing and there fine people walking is mighty divertising.”—Samuel Pepys.