The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

Front matter

Reading edition

Drawn in the Gardens, on the night of August the 19^th 1833, by Robert Cruikshank Esq^r.——

C.H. SIMPSON, ESQ^R. M.C.R.G.V.

For upwards of 36 Years,—with a distant view of his Colossal Likeness in Variegated Lamps.

To C. H. Simpson, Esq^r. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall,—this Print, taken in the Sixty Third year of his age, on the Night of his benefit is, by express permission, most respectfully dedicated by his obliged and humble Servant,—the Publisher.

London. Published by W. Hidd. 14. Chandos St.^t West Strand, August 20.^th 1833.

THE LONDON PLEASURE GARDENS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

WARWICK WROTH, F.S.A.

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ASSISTED BY

ARTHUR EDGAR WROTH

WITH SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

London MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. 1896

The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved

“A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant and it is very cheap and pleasant going thither.... But to hear the nightingale and the birds, and here fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew’s trump, and here laughing and there fine people walking is mighty divertising.”—Samuel Pepys.