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LONDON AS IT IS.

LONDON; PAST AND PRESENT. By the late PETER CUNNINGHAM, F.S.A. In this work will be found much Antiquarian, Historical, and entertaining information, together with ample descriptions of all the Streets and Buildings of note now to be seen, as well as those no longer existing; and every place endeared to Englishmen by Interesting and Historical associations, including:

REMARKABLE OLD INNS, COFFEE
HOUSES, AND TAVERNS.

TOWN HOUSES OF THE OLD NO

BILITY.

OLD LONDON PRISONS.

PLACES REFERRED TO BY OLD
WRITERS.

WARDS OF LONDON.

PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAIN THE CITY COMPANIES.

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ANCIENT THEATRES, AND OLD

LONDON SIGHTS.

ANCIENT CROSSES, AND CITY
GATES.

THE HOSTELS OF CHURCH DIG-
NITARIES.

PRIVILEGED PLACES FOR
DEBTORS.

STREETS REMARKABLE FOR SOME
EVENT.

BIRTH PLACES AND BURIAL
PLACES OF EMINENT INDIVI-
DUALS. &c., &c.

Revised and Edited by JAMES THORNE, F.S. A.,

Author of the "Handbook to the Environs of London."

NOTICE.

IN no part of the Old World do changes occur so rapidly as in London. An improvement mooted one year is carried into execution the next. The Editor of a Guide-book needs consequently to be ever on the watch, if he desires to place his readers au courant with the actual state of things. Endeavours have been made in every new Edition of the present work to effect this object, and its success in securing the public favour is no doubt due to this cause.

Care has been taken to insert the lines of Metropolitan and Underground Railways, which furnish such facilities for transport to all corners of London, and a plan of them forms the frontispiece to this edition.

A full historical description of London, and of