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

People / Organizations

• Erasmus Jones (Author)
• John Jackson ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed, and sold by J. Roberts at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, J. Shuckburgh between the two Temple Gates, Fleetstreet; J. Pote at the End of Suffolk-street, near Charing-Cross; and J. Jackson near St. James's House; and by the other booksellers of London and Westminster, [1728] The seventh edition, corrected.; ..

Publication year

1728

ESTC No.

T120585

Grub Street ID

171602

Description

[2],62p. ; 8°.

Note

MS. attribution to Erasmus Jones in Isaac Reed's copy of the first edition, now at Harvard

Price from imprint: price One Shilling.