Lives of Famous London Beggars

Name: Lives of Famous London Beggars
Author: John Thomas Smith

by John Thomas Smith

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Lives of Famous London Beggars With Forty Portraits of the Most Remarkable.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by deaurider, cpinfield and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-08-07

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Beggars -- England -- London

About the author

John Thomas Smith

1766–1833

Best remembered as "Antiquity Smith," this lively London engraver and antiquarian turned the streets, characters, and vanishing corners of his city into books that still feel vivid today. He also worked at the British Museum and wrote a famously sharp life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens.

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