James Peller Malcolm

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

PLATES TO THE FIRST VOLUME.

PREFACE.

CHAP. I. STATE OF PARISH CHILDREN ANECDOTES OF VARIOUS

CHAP. II. ANECDOTES OF DEPRAVITY, FROM 1700 TO 1800.

CHAP. III. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON FROM 1700 TO 1800.

CHAP. IV. ANECDOTES OF ECCENTRICITY.

INDEX.

INDEX OF NAMES.

Transcriber's Notes

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A complete list of corrections as well as other notes follows the text.

ANECDOTES
OF THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
OF
LONDON
DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY;

INCLUDING
THE CHARITIES, DEPRAVITIES, DRESSES, AND AMUSEMENTS,
OF THE CITIZENS OF LONDON,
DURING THAT PERIOD;
WITH A REVIEW
OF THE
STATE OF SOCIETY IN 1807.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A SKETCH OF THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, AND OF
THE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.

ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS.

By JAMES PELLER MALCOLM, F. S. A.
AUTHOR OF "LONDINIUM REDIVIVUM," &c. &c.

THE SECOND EDITION.
VOLUME I.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME.
PATERNOSTER ROW.
1810.

John Nichols and Son, Printers,
Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.