Curiosities of London: exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis, with nearly fifty years' personal recollections

'the Notable Things in the History of London through its Nineteen Centuries of accredited antiquity.' He is especially interested in changes which have happened during the process of the book's production - 1828 - 1855. An alphabetical list of events and places of significance. Of particular interest are Amusements, including masquerades, fairs, equestrianism, hunting, gambling, bear- and bull- baiting, cock-fighting, maying, the parks, pigeons, the game of prison-bars, or base, puppet shows, Punch, rackets, skittles, tea-gardens, tennis; the Apollonicon; the Argyll Rooms with some shows that were presented there; balloon ascents; Bartholomew Fair; bazaars; clubs (including some no longer extant, like the Kit-Kat Club); coffee-houses; the Colosseum and its panorama; cosmoramas; the daguerrotype; dioramas; the Egyptian Hall and its exhibitions; gardens; Gog and Magog; the Hippodrome; Leicester Square with its various exhibitions; libraries; museums and their contents; the National Gallery; panoramas, with details of the pictures shown; Ranelagh; theatres and their history; Vauxhall gardens; waxworks; the Zoos. Frontispiece of the author and a few small illustrations.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection