Copy 1, Volume 1

The history and antiquities of London / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history and antiquities of London / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The remarks made in these latter walks were committed to my tablets till they be- ~ eame rather considerable. In that state I~ determined to lay them before the public, not urged by desire of friends, nor the wish of the people, or any similar motives, but by my own continued propensity to writing. I have two things to apologize for in this performance. Furst, its irregularity : but I do assure my friends it is given nearly in the same manner in which the materials were collected, and quite according to the course of the walk of the day. Secondly, let me request the good inhabi- tants of London.and Westminster, not to be offended at my having stuffed their [dad into a nut-shell: the account of the city of London, and liberties of Westminster, into a quarto volume. J have condensed into it all I could$.
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