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1.
Wits, wenchers and wantons : London's low life : Covent Garden in the eighteenth century
Author
Burford, E. J.
Published
London : Hale, 1986.
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 646 986 B89
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> DA685 C7 B87
Format
Books
2.
The Connoisseur
Published
London, Jones & company, 1826.
Online
Online book
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Books / Online
3.
The humourous and diverting history of Tom Jones, a foundling Containing pleasant and delightful account of the goodness and hospitality of the benevolen: Mr. Allworthy; the humours of Squire Western, the famous fox-hunter; and the droll and whimsical adventures which besell Honest Partridge, the School-Master, Parish-Clerk, and barber; interspersed with many curious love-particulars between Mr. Jones, and the beautiful Miss Sophia Western, to whom, after a Number of Crosses and dissappointments, he was at length happily married. The whole comprehending such entertaining scenes, both in high and low life, as are not to be met with in any history of the kind
Author
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Published
London : Printed by Robert Bassam, No. 53, St. John's-Street, West-Smithfield, 1794.
Online
Full text online
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
4.
The adventures of a speculist; or, A journey through London. Compiled from papers written by George Alexander Stevens, (author of A lecturer upon heads) with his life, a preface, corrections, and notes, by the editor. Exhibiting a picture of the manners, fashions, amusements, &c. of the metropolis at the middle of the eighteenth century: and including several fugitive pieces of humour, by the same author, now first collected and published. In two volumes
Author
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Published
London : printed for the editor: and sold by S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
Online
Full text online
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
5.
The new London spy: or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. Containing a true picture of modern high and low life; from the splendid mansions in St. James's to the subterraneous habitations of St. Giles's, wherein are displayed the various scenes of Covent-Garden, and its environs, the theatres, Jelly-houses, Gaming-houses, Night-houses, Cottages, Masquerades, Mock-Masquerades, Public-gardens, and other places of entertainments. As well as civil reception, public ... together with the various ... The whole exhibiting a striking portrait of London, as it appears in the present year, 1771
Author
King, Richard, Esq
Published
London : printed for J. Cooke, in Pater-noster Row, [1771]
Online
Full text online
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
6.
The Connoisseur
Published
[London] : Printed for R. Baldwin, [1754-1756]
Online
v. 2
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
7.
The laughing philosopher
Published
Dublin : Printed for James Williams, 1777.
Location
LSF- BEINECKE >> Im L368 777
Format
Books
8.
The connoisseur
Published
London : Printed for R. Baldwin ..., 1754-1756.
Online
Online journal
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
9.
The minor Jockey Club, or, A sketch of the manners of the Greeks ..
Author
Pigott, Charles, -1794
Published
[Bath] : Printed for R. Farnham, and sold by the booksellers at Bath, Newmarket, York, and London, [1792?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 53 P62 792m
Format
Books
10.
Letters from Altamont in the capital to his friends in the country
Author
Jenner, Charles, 1736-1774
Published
London, T. Becket, 1776.
Online
Online book
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Books / Online
11.
Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world
Author
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
12.
Tom Jones
Author
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
13.
Georgian London
Author
Brechin, Derek
Published
London, Macdonald & Co., 1969.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> DA682 B7 1969
Format
Books
14.
Trivia, or, The art of walking the streets of London
Author
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Published
London : Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, [1716]
Location
LSF- BEINECKE >> 2004 128
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> Ik G252 716
Format
Books
15.
A city full of people : men and women of London 1650-1750
Author
Earle, Peter, 1937-
Published
London : Methuen, 1994.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> DA688 E27 1994
Format
Books
16.
Boswell for the defence, 1769-1774
Author
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Published
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1959.
Location
Law Library >> PR3325 .A885
Format
Books
17.
The amusements of Old London : being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century. Volume the first
Author
Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
Published
London : John C. Nimmo, MDCCCI.
Online
Online resource
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
18.
The amusements of Old London : being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century. Volume the second
Author
Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
Published
London : John C. Nimmo, MDCCCI.
Online
Online resource
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
19.
The XVIIIth century in London : an account of its social life and arts
Author
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937
Published
London : B.T. Batsford, 1933.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> DA682 C43 1933 (LC)
Format
Books
20.
The XVIIIth century in London : an account of its social life and arts
Author
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937
Published
London : B.T. Batsford, 1920.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> DA682 C43 1920
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> DA682 C43 1920 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 646 920 C36
Format
Books
21.
Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat Club : with a prefatory account of the origin of the association : illustrated with forty-eight portraits, from the original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Author
Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
Published
London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1821.
Online
Online book
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Books / Online
22.
The moving pageant : a literary sourcebook on London street-life, 1700-1914
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PR1111 L6 M68 1998
Format
Books
23.
The connoisseur
Published
London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1755-1757.
Location
LSF- BEINECKE >> 1976 S35
Format
Journals & Newspapers
24.
Hogarth and the shows of London
Author
Stevens, Andrew, 1956-
Published
Madison : Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, c1996.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> NJ18.H67 S74 1996 (LC)+ Oversize
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> NJ18 H67 S74 FLK 4436 1996 (LC)+ Oversize
Format
Books
25.
The Connoisseur
Published
London : J. Richardson, 1822.
Online
v.1
v.2
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Books / Online
26.
A View of London and Westminster: or, The town spy. : Containing an account of the different customs, tempers, manners, policies, &c. of the people in the several most noted parishes within the bills of mortality respectively. Wherein the follies and vices of the English, Welch, Scotch, French, and Irish inhabitants, (and more particularly the last) are justly exposed
Author
German gentleman
Published
London : Printed for T. Warner ... and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725.
Location
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> College Pamphlets 1061 1
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Z54 93
Format
Books
27.
The house by the Thames : and the people who lived there
Author
Tindall, Gillian
Published
London : Chatto & Windus, 2006.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> DA685.S7 T56 2006
Format
Books
28.
The London diary, 1717-1721, and other writings
Author
Byrd, William, 1674-1744
Published
New York, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> F229 .B9685 1958 (LC)
Format
Books
29.
A Trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The art of walking in St. James's park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with coffee-house politicians, exposed. A dissertation on the craft of the town-beggars, and the monstrous pride and insolencies of women-servants: the humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the day of execution. The horse-guards, prov'd to be better subjects, though worse soldiers than the foot-guards. A remarkable character of Sir Timothy Testy, knight. The real causes of the debaucheries practis'd upon the fair sex; shewing the true reasons why such infinite numbers of fine young creatures are daily forc'd into the service of the publick. People of fashion required to keep their young daughters out of their kitchens. A merry water-ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the miseries of that part of the town described; with some account of a tumult near King Edward's stairs, occasioned by a sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a chamber-pot from a two-pair of stairs window on a decay'd baronet's wife. With many other diverting particulars
Published
London : Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms. in Warwick-Lane, 1735.
Online
Full text online
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
30.
Eighteenth century London
Author
Johnson, Nichola
Published
London : Museum of London, c1991.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> DA682 J65 1991 (LC)
Format
Books
31.
Eighteenth century London
Author
Johnson, Nichola
Published
London : Museum of London, c1991.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
32.
A hundred years of Georgian London : from the accession of George I to the heyday of the Regency
Author
Hill, Doug
Published
New York, Hastings House [1971, c1970]
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> DA682 H48
Format
Books
33.
A Trip through London : containing observations on men and things ... : to which is added a brief and merry character to Ireland by Berkshire gentleman lately return'd from that kingdom
Author
Jones, Erasmus, -1740
Published
London : Printed and sold by J. Roberts ..., J. Shuckburgh ..., J. Pote ..., and S. Jackson ..., 1728.
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
34.
The London spy
Author
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731
Published
East Lansing : Colleagues Press, 1993.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> DA688 W25X 1993
Format
Books
35.
The London spy
Author
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731
Published
East Lansing : Colleagues Press, 1993.
Online
Online book (login required)
Location
Internet Archive >> None
Format
Books
36.
The empress of pleasure : the life and adventures of Teresa Cornelys, queen of masquerades and Casanova's lover
Author
Summers, Judith
Published
London ; New York : Viking, 2003.
Location
SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> ML429.C6425 S86X 2003 (LC)
Format
Books
37.
Canaletto and the case of the privy garden
Author
Laurence, Janet
Published
London : Macmillan, 1999.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> PR6062.A795 C295 1999
Format
Books
38.
William Hogarth's A harlot's progress : a London life in six acts
Author
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Published
London : Courtauld Institute Galleries, [1995?]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 75 H67 S995
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> NJ18 H67 A15 H27 1995 (LC)
Format
Books
39.
London 200 years ago
Author
Snowden, W. Crawford
Published
London : Associated Newspapers, [1946?]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> DA688 S55 (LC)+ Oversize
Format
Books
40.
Talbot Inn yard, Strand. The nobility, gentry, and public are respectfully informed, there is now to be seen at the Talbot Inn yard, Strand, that most beautiful, and truly surprizing great ox : which has been viewed with astonishment by the King, Queen, Royal Family, and many of the nobility, gentry, &c. who allow him to be the greatest curiosity ever seen
Published
London : [publisher not identified], 1785.
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
41.
To be seen at the Old Blue Boar Inn yard, Holborn, the surprizing and beautiful white ox, six years old this May, bred by Mr. Fisher, of Kirkby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1785.
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
42.
Invitation to Ranelagh, 1742-1803
Author
Sands, Mollie
Published
London : J. Westhouse, 1946.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> VdL 109
Format
Books
43.
A dissertation on the construction of locks : containing, first, reasons and observations, demonstrating all locks, which depend on fixed wards, to be erroneous in principle, and defective in point of security : secondly, a specification of a lock, constructed on a new and infallible principle, which, possessing all the properties essential to security, will prevent the most ruinous consequences of house robberies, and be a certain protection against thieves of all descriptions
Author
Bramah, Joseph, 1749-1814
Published
London : Printed for the author, sold by R. Baldwin, [1785?]
Online
Online book
Location
Yale Internet Resource >> None
Format
Books / Online
44.
The Du Poissey anecdotes
Published
Sydney : Printed for Art in Australia Ltd., 24 Bond Street, 1922
Online
Online book
Location
HathiTrust Digital Library >> Online Resource
Format
Books / Online
45.
The coffee-house : a cultural history
Author
Ellis, Markman
Published
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> TX910.G7 E45 2004 (LC)
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 63 004 E55
Format
Books
46.
A passion for privacy : Untersuchungen zur Genese der bürgerlichen Privatsphäre in London, 1660-1800
Author
Heyl, Christoph
Published
München : Oldenbourg, 2004.
Location
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> DA688 .H495 2004
Format
Books
47.
This is to give notice to the nobility and gentry, that the famous Mr. Zucker is just return'd from abroad ... These amazing feats consist in a delightful amusement of skill of the eye, hands, and table, never seen in these kingdoms before, and are as follows
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1761]
Location
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> File 66 76- T448
Format
Books
48.
A great and monstrous thing : London in the eighteenth century
Author
White, Jerry, 1949-
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating) >> DA682 .W48 2012B (LC)
Format
Books
49.
Kalendar : manuscript
Author
Southouse, William, 1705-1795
Published
London, England, 1757-circa 1789.
Location
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> OSB MSS FILE 19770
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
50.
Desultory reflections on police : with an essay on the means of preventing crimes and amending criminals
Author
Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835
Published
London : Printed by Baker and Galabin for C. Dilly, 1785.
Location
Law Library Rare >> T B6199 1785
Format
Books