English bookseller and antiquarian (1770-1854)

Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].

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Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].