The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

Name: The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century
Author: Arthur Edgar Wroth

by Arthur Edgar Wroth, Warwick William Wroth

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

London: Macmillan and Co, 1896.

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

Release date

2023-08-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

London (England) -- History -- 18th century Parks -- England -- London -- History

About the authors

Arthur Edgar Wroth

Best known for helping bring old London’s pleasure gardens vividly back to life, this little-known writer is remembered through a single enduring work of cultural history. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his book an extra air of discovery.

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Warwick William Wroth

1858–1911

A British Museum scholar with a deep love of coins, history, and old London, he moved easily between careful cataloguing and lively biographical writing. His work helped shape both numismatics and reference publishing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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