The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth.
- Warwick William Wroth
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century / by Warwick Wroth ; assisted by Arthur Edgar Wroth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREFACE ]n the following pages an attempt has been made to write, for the first time, a history of the London pleasure gardens of the last century. Scattered notices of these gardens are to be found in many histories of the London parishes and in other less accessible sources, and merely to collect this information in a single volume would not, perhaps, have been a useless task. It is one, however, that could not have been undertaken with much satisfaction unless there was a prospect of making some substantial additions—especially in the case of the less known gardens—to the accounts already existing. A good deal of such new material it has here been possible to furnish from a collection of newspapers, prints, songs, &c., that I have been forming for several years to illustrate the history of the London Gardens.^ The information available in the writings of such laborious topographers as Wilkinson, Pinks, and Nelson is, of course, indispensable, and has not been here ^ Some of the rarer items of the collection which it seemed desirable to cite as authorities are marked W. or W. Coll.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2897721x_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
