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Compiled chiefly from 'Sketches by Boz' and 'The uncommercial traveller.' In slipcase. Contents; Introduction -- Gone astray -- The streets -- morning -- Greenwich Fair -- Early coaches -- Private theatres -- A Parliamentary sketch -- Gin-shops -- Astley's -- The prisoners' van -- Meditations in Monmouth Street -- Scotland Yard -- The theatrical young gentleman -- Doctors' commons -- A visit to Newgate -- The Chinese junk -- The amusements of the people -- On duty with Inspector Field -- Arcadian London -- Wapping workhouse -- Lively turtle -- The city of the absent -- Down with the tide -- Titbull's almshouses -- Some recollections of mortality -- Sly neighbourhoods -- Night walks.
Published in this edition by Folio Society , London 1966.
Illustratioons by George Cruickshank.