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The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.

Sussex Place in Regent's Park, London. Engraving by W. Wallis after T. Shepherd, 1827.

The secret history of Georgian London : how the wages of sin shaped the capital / by Dan Cruickshank.

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Sussex Place in Regent's Park, London. Engraving by W. Wallis after T. Shepherd, 1827.

The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.

The secret history of Georgian London : how the wages of sin shaped the capital / by Dan Cruickshank.