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Pre-1840 Publications

An Account of the Institutions of the Lock Asylum for the Reception of Penitent Female Patients, when Discharged Cured from the Lock Hospital, C. Watts, London, 1796.

An Account of the Proceedings of the Governors of the Lock-Hospital near Hyde Park Corner, From the first Institution July 4 1746 to September 29 1749, London, 1749, British Library shelfmark HS.74/1512.(4).

An Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Magdalen Charity, to which are added Rev. Dr Dodd’s Sermons, 3rd edn, W. Faden, London, 1766.

An Answer to the Memoirs of Mrs Billington with the Life and Adventures of Richard Daly, Esq., London, 1792.

Arbiter, Petronius, Memoirs of the Present Countess of Derby, late Miss Farren, H. D. Symond, London, 1797.

Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, A Picture of England, 2 vols., Edward Jeffery, London, 1789.

 

Baddeley, Sophia, Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley, 3 vols., Dublin, 1787.

Banks, Joseph, The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771, ed. J. C.

Beaglehole, 2 vols., Angus A. Robertson, Sydney, 1962.

Barbon, Nicholas, An Apology for the Builder; or, a Discourse shewing the Cause and Effect of the Increase of Building, London, 1685.

Bewick, Thomas, A Memoir of Thomas Bewick Written by Himself, ed. Iain

Bain, Oxford University Press, London, 1975.

Billington, Elizabeth, Memoirs of Mrs Billington…With Copies of Several Letters…, James Ridgway, London, 1792.

Bleackley, Horace W. (ed.), Casanova in England, being the Account of the Visit to London in 1763–4 of Giacomo Casanova, John Lane, London, 1923.

Boswell, James, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791; edn ed. E. Malone, 5 vols., J. Richardson & Co., London, 1821; edn ed. George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1934.

Boswell, James, London Journal, 1762–3, ed. Frederick A. Pottle, Heinemann/Yale, London, 1950.

Bray, Thomas, The Good Fight of Faith…Exemplified in a Sermon Preached…at the Funeral of Mr John Dent, W. Hills, London, 1709.

Bray, Thomas, The Tryals of Jeremy Tooley, William Arch, and John Clauson…for the Murder of Mr John Dent, Constable, in the Parish of St Paul’s Covent Garden, March 18 1708–9, J. Wilford, London, 1732.

Burke, Edmund, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, London, 1757.

Burney, Fanny, The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, 1752–1840, 3 vols., Frederick, London, 1892.

Burney, Fanny, The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778, ed. Annie Raine Ellis, 2 vols., G. Bell & Sons, London, 1889.

Burney, Fanny, The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, ed. Lars E. Troide, 4 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.

 

Casanova, Giacomo, The History of My Life, trans. Willard R. Trask, 12 vols., Longman, London, 1971.

The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez, London, 1749.

The Characters of the Most Celebrated Courtezans, London, 1780.

Charke, Charlotte, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke, W. Reeve, London, 1755; abridged form published in Gentleman’s Magazine; edn ed. Robert Rehder, Pickering & Chatto, London, 1999; scrapbook edn incorporates 1755 text with relevant portraits, theatrical cuttings and prints, British Library shelfmark C.184.B.16.

Cibber, Colley, An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, printed for the author, London, 1740; edn ed. R.K. Lowe, 2 vols., London, 1889.

Cleland, John, Fanny Hill. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 2 vols., G. Fenton, London, 1748–9; edn Luxor Press, London, 1964.

Cobden, Edward, A Persuasive to Chastity: A Sermon, etc., J. Lodge, London, 1749, British Library shelfmark 694.g.19.4.

Colquhoun, Patrick, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, C. Dilly, London, 1796; 4th edn, 1800.

The Complete Newgate Calendar see The Newgate Calendar. A Congratulatory Epistle from a Reformed Rake to John F—g Esq, upon the new Scheme of Reclaiming Prostitutes, London, 1758.

Covent-Garden: A Satire, T. Legg, London, 1756.

Dalton, James, A Genuine Narrative of all the Street Robberies…by James Dalton, J. Roberts, London, 1728, British Library shelfmark Tracts 1080.m.32.(2).

Davies, Christian (previously attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Life and Adventures of Mrs Christian Davies, commonly call’d Mother Ross, R. Montagu, London, 1740.

Defoe, Daniel, Augusta Triumphans; or, the Way to make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe, First to establish a University…, J. Roberts, London, 1728.

Defoe, Daniel, The Conduct of Robert Walpole, T. Warner, London, 1717.

Defoe, Daniel, Everybody’s Business is Nobody’s Business, London, 1725.

Defoe, Daniel, Some Considerations upon Street-Walkers, with a Proposal for Lessening the Present Number of Them, A. Moore, London, c.1726.

Defoe, Daniel, The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild, T. Warner, London, 1725.

Derrick, Samuel, Memoirs of the Shakespeare’s Head, London, 1755.

Dingley, Robert, The Plan of the Magdalen House for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes, London, 1758, British Library shelfmark 1388.k.1.(2). Dingley, Robert, Proposals for Establishing a Public Place of Reception for Penitent Prostitutes, W. Faden, London, 1758, British Library shelfmark 1388.k.1.(1).

Disney, John, Essay upon the Execution of the Laws against Immorality and Prophaneness, J. Downing, London, 1708.

Drury, Robert, The Humours of Covent Garden, London, 1737.

Dunton, John, The Night-Walker; or, Evening Rambles in Search of Lewd Women, London, 1696.

 

Farington, Joseph (ed.), The Diary of Joseph Farington, ed. Kathryn Cave et al., Yale/New Haven, 1978–84.

Farington, Joseph, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1819.

Fielding, Henry, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, A. Miller, London, 1742.

Fielding, Henry, Amelia, London, 1751; Penguin edn, Harmondsworth, 1987.

Fielding, Henry, An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews. In Which the Many Notorious Falsehoods and Misrepresentations of a Book Called Pamela are Exposed…, A. Dodd, London, 1741.

Fielding, Henry, A Clear Statement of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, London, 1753.

Fielding, Henry, The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office, London, 1752; edn ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.

Fielding, Henry, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, A. Millar, London, 1751.

Fielding, Henry, The Female Husband; or, The Surprising History of Mrs Mary, Alias Mr George Hamilton, London, 1746.

Fielding, Henry, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, A. Millar, London, 1749.

Fielding, Henry, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, A Journey from this World to the Next, A. Millar, London, 1743.

Fielding, Henry, A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, A. Millar, London, 1749.

Fielding, John, An Account of the Origin and Effects of a Police Set on Foot by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, in the Year 1753, London, 1758.

Fielding, John, A Plan for the Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes, London, 1758.

Fielding, Sarah, The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House as Supposed to be Related by Themselves, London, 1760.

The Forty-First Account of the Progress made by the Societies, M. Downing, London, 1735, British Library shelfmark Sermons 693.d.10.(12). Frith, Mary, The Life of Mrs M.F., Commonly Called Mal Cut-purse, London, 1662.

 

Garfield, Richard, The Wandering Whore, London, 1660.

Gascoyne, Sir Crisp, An Address to the Liverymen of the City of London from Sir Crisp Gascoyne…Relative to his Conduct in the Cases of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires, J. Hodges, London, 1754.

The Gentleman’s Bottle Companion, London, 1768; facsimile edn, with description as ‘a collection of 18th-century bawdy ballads’, Edinburgh, 1979.

The Genuine History of Mrs Sarah Prydden, usually called Sally Salisbury, and her Gallants. To which is Affix’d a Letter from A. Boles, London, 1723, British Library shelfmark 1418.f.24.

Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Frederick Warne, London, 1776–88.

Godwin, William, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1798; edn ed. Richard Holmes, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1987.

 

Hampden, John, An Eighteenth-century Journal, being a Record of the Years 1774–1776, Compiled from Various Sources, Macmillan, London, 1940.

d’Hancarville, Pierre-François, Monumens de la vie privée des Douze Césars, Chez Sabellus, Capri, 1780.

d’Hancarville, Pierre-François, Monumens du Culte Secret des Dames Romaines, De l’Imprimerie du Vatican, Rome, 1784.

d’Hancarville, Pierre-François, Recherches sur l’origine l’esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce, London, 1785.

d’Hancarville, Pierre-François, with William Hamilton, Antiquitiés étrusques, grecques et romaines, tirées du cabinet de chevalier W. Hamilton, Naples, 1766–7.

Hanway, Jonas, A Candid Historical Account of the Hospital for the Reception of Exposed and Deserted Young Children, London, 1759.

Hanway, Jonas, A Reply to C—A—, Author of the Candid Remarks on Mr H.s Candid Historical Account of the Foundling Hospital, London, 1760.

Hanway, Jonas, The Defects of Police, the Cause of Immorality, and the Continued Robberies Committed, J. Dodsley, London, 1775.

Hanway, Jonas, Thoughts on the Plan for a Magdalen-House for Repentant Prostitutes, James Waugh, London, 1758.

Harris, Jack, Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar for the Year 1773, Containing an Exact Description of the Most Celebrated Ladies of Pleasure, H. Ranger, London, 1773, British Library shelfmark C.192.a.54; also for the years 1788, 1789, 1790, 1793, shelfmarks P.C.22.a.12-15 and P.C.30.h.2.

Hawkesworth, John, Account of the Voyages…in the Southern Hemisphere, London, 1773.

Haworth, Samuel, A Description of the Duke’s Bagnio, London, 1683, British Library shelfmark 233.a.40.

Hazlitt, William, Selected Writings, ed. Ronald Blythe, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1970.

Hazlitt, William, Selected Writings, ed. Jon Cook, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.

Hickey, William, Memoirs of William Hickey, ed. Peter Quennell, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1975.

Hill, John, The Remonstrance of Harris, Pimp-General to the People of London, London, 1758.

Hill, John, The Story of Elizabeth Canning Considered, London, 1753.

The History of Colonel Francis Ch—rtr—s, London, 1730, British Library shelfmark G.1661.

Hogarth, William, The Analysis of Beauty, Written with a View to Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste, London, 1753.

Hogarth, William, Anecdotes of the Celebrated William Hogarth, with an Explanatory Description of his Works, London, 1811.

Hogarth, William, Anecdotes of William Hogarth, Written by Himself, London, 1833.

Holliday, John, An Appeal to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, on the Probable Consequences of Covering the Hospital Lands with Buildings, Harrison & Co., London, 1787, British Library shelfmark 10350.g.13.(21).

Holloway, Robert, The Phoenix of Sodom, or the Vere Street Coterie, J. Cooke, London, 1813.

The Humours of Fleet Street and the Strand, being the Lives and Adventures of the Most Noted Ladies of Pleasure by ‘An Old Sportsman’, A. Wright, London, 1749.

 

Jacob, Giles, Treatise of Hermaphrodites, 1718.

Johnson, Samuel, Irene: A Historical Tragedy, 1737.

Johnstone, Charles, Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea, London, 1760.

Jones, Erasmus, A Trip through London, Containing Observations on Men and Things…, 7th edn, J. Roberts, London, 1728.

 

Kitty’s Stream; or, the Noblemen Turned Fisher-men, a Comic Satire, Addressed to the Gentlemen in the Interest of the Celebrated Miss K—y F—r, by Rigdum Funidos, London, 1759.

Knight, Richard Payne, An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, Lately Existing at Isernia, T. Spilsbury, London, 1786, British Library shelfmark Cup.820.5.1.

 

Lacy, Mary, The History of the Female Shipwright, 1773.

Lady Worsley: Account of the Trial with the Whole of the Evidence, London, 1782, British Library shelfmark 11631.g.31.(1–20).

Lang, Andrew, Historical Mysteries: The Case of Elizabeth Canning, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1904.

La Roche, Marie Sophie von, Sophie in London 1786, trans. Clare Williams, Cape, London, 1933.

Latham, Robert, and William Matthews (eds.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1970–83.

A Letter to Jonas Hanway, in which Some Reasons are Assigned, Why Houses for the Reception of Penitent Women, Ought Not to be Called Magdalen-Houses, J. Noon, London, 1758, British Library shelfmark 700.f.11.11.

The Life and Character of Moll King, late Mistress of King’s Coffee-House in Covent Garden, Containing a True Narrative of this Well-known Lady, W. Price, London, c. 1747, British Library shelfmark C.133.dd.7.

The Life of Captain John Stanley, London, 1723, British Library shelfmark 1132.f.32.

The Life of Lavinia Beswick, alias Fenton, alias Polly Peachum, London, 1728, British Library shelfmark 1415.b.34.

The London-Bawd, with her Character and Life, John Gwillim, London, 3rd edn, 1705; 4th edn, 1711. ‘Ludovicus, M.’, A Particular but Melancholy Account of the Great Hardships, Difficulties and Miseries, that those Unhappy and Much-to-be-Pitied Creatures, the Common Women of the Town, Are Plung’d into at this Juncture, London, 1752.

 

Machen, Arthur (ed.), The Memoirs of Casanova, 12 vols., privately printed for the Casanova Society, London, 1922.

The Machine, or Love’s Preservative, T. Reynolds, London, 1744.

Maitland, William, The History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time…New Edition Edited by John Entick, 2 vols., J. Wilkie, London, 1775.

Malcolm, James Peller, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century, London, 1808.

Mandeville, Bernard, A Modest Defence of Publick Stews: or, an Essay upon Whoring, as it is Now Practis’d in these Kingdoms, A. Moore, London, 1724; edn ed. Irwin Primer, Palgrave Macmillan, New York and Basingstoke, 2006.

Mathias, Thomas, The Pursuit of Literature, or What You Will, 4 parts, J. Owen, London, 1794.

Meibom, Johann Heinrich, A Treatise on the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs…To which is added A Treatise of Hermaphrodites (by Giles Jacob), trans. George Sewell, 2 parts, E. Curll, London, 1718.

The Midnight Rambler; or, New Nocturnal Spy for the Present Year, Containing a Complete Description of the Modern Transactions of London and Westminster, Exhibiting Great Variety of Midnight Scenes, J. Cooke, London, c. 1770.

The Midnight Spy; or, a View of the Transactions of London and Westminster, from Ten in the Evening till Five in the Morning, J. Cooke, London, 1766.

The Modern Courtezan, an Heroic Poem. Inscribed to Miss F—y M—y, H. Carpenter, London, 1751.

Modern Propensities; or, an Essay on the Art of Strangling…with Memoirs of Susannah Hill and a Summary of her Trial, London, 1791.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709–1762, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1906.

Moore’s British Classics, containing Dr Johnson’s Rambler and Lord Liddleton’s Persian Letters, James Moore, Dublin, 1793.

Morris, Robert, An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture, London, 1728.

Muilman, Teresia Constantia, An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs Teresa Constantia Phillips, 3 vols., printed for the author, London, 1748.

Murray, Fanny, Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Fanny Murray, 2nd edn, M. Thrush, London, 1759, British Library shelfmark 1417.c.27.

 

Nancy Dawson’s Jests, to which is added the Merry Hornpipe, J. Seymour, London, 1761.

The Newgate Calendar; Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who have been Convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England since the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century; with Anecdotes and Last Exclamations of Sufferers, 5 vols., London, 1773, compiled from broadsheets dating back 70 years; edn ed. Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 4 vols., 1824–6. Also, The Complete Newgate Calendar, ed. J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook, 5 vols., Navarre Society, London, 1926.

Nocturnal Revels; or, The History of King’s-place and Other Modern Nunneries by a ‘Monk’ of the Order of St Francis of Medmenham, 2 vols., M. Goadby, London, 1779.

Northcote, James, Memoirs of the Life, Writings…of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1813–5; 2nd edn as The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 vols., London, 1818.

 

Palladio, Andrea, Four Books of Architecture, ed. Isaac Ware, London, 1738. ‘Philo-Patria’, A Letter to Henry Fielding, Esq., Occasioned by his Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, M. Cooper, London, 1751, British Library shelfmark 1508/411.

Piozzi, Hester Lynch, Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale), 2nd edn, 2 vols., Longmans, London, 1861.

Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation, being a View of the Present State of Fornication…in Great Britain by ‘Father Poussin’, J. Roberts, London, 1734, British Library shelfmark Tab.603.2.12(1).

Priddon, Sarah (calling herself Sally Salisbury), An Account of the Tryal of Sally Salisbury, London, 1723.

Priddon, Sarah (calling herself Sally Salisbury), The Effigies, Parentage…Life…of Sally Salisbury, London, 1722–3.

Priddon, Sarah (calling herself Sally Salisbury), see also The Genuine History of Mrs Sarah Prydden; see also Walker, Captain Charles.

 

Quennell, Peter (ed.) see Hickey, William.

 

Ramsay, Allan, A Letter…Concerning the Affair of Elizabeth Canning, London, 1753.

Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1775; facsimile edn, Edinburgh, 1978.

A Refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne’s Address to the Liverymen of London, J. Payne, London, 1754.

Richardson, Samuel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, 2 vols., London, 1740.

Roberts, J., and A. Dodd, Hell upon Earth; or, The Town in an Uproar, J. Roberts, London, 1729.

The Rules, Orders and Regulations of the Magdalen House, 2nd edn, London, 1759, British Library shelfmark 1388.k.1.(4).

Ryan, Michael, M.D., Prostitution in London, with a Comparative View of that of Paris and New York, H. Bailliere, London, 1839.

Salisbury, Sally see Priddon, Sarah.

Satan’s Harvest Home; or, The Present State of Whorecraft, London, 1749.

Saussure, César de, A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II: the Letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his Family, trans. and ed. Madame Van Muyden, John Murray, London, 1902.

Saussure, César de, A Foreign View of England in 1725–1729, trans. and ed. Madam Van Muyden, Caliban, London, 1995.

Saussure, César de, Letters from London, 1725–1730, trans. Paul Scott, Adnax, Newnham, 2006.

Schütz, Friedrich Wilhelm von, Briefe über London (Letters from London), Hamburg, 1792.

The Shortest-Way with Whores and Rogues; or, A New Project for Reformation, Dedicated to Mr Daniel de Foe, Author of the Shortest Way with Dissenters, London, 1703, British Library shelfmark C.124.g.15.

A Sketch of the Present Times, and the Time to Come: in an Address to Kitty Fisher, T. Waller, London, 1762.

Smith, Gregory (ed.), The Spectator: Addison and Steele and Others, 4 vols., Dent, London, 1958.

Smith, John Thomas, Nollekens and his Times, London, 1828; edn with introduction by Walter Sichel, Century Hutchinson, London, 1986.

Smollett, Tobias, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Baldwin, Richardson and Wilson, London, 1751 (in which is included The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, by Viscountess Frances Vane); rev. edn, 1758.

Smollett, Tobias, The Adventures of Roderick Random, J. Osborn, London, 1748; Oxford University Press edn, 1981.

Smollett, Tobias, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 3 vols., W. Johnston, London, 1771.

Snell, Hannah, The Female Soldier; or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell, R. Walker, London, 1750.

Some Objections to the Foundling-Hospital Considered, by a Person in the Country to Whom They were Sent, T. Pasham, London, 1761.

The Spectator see Smith, Gregory (ed.).

Swift, Jonathan, Directions to Servants, George Faulkner, Dublin, 1745.

 

The Tendencies of the Foundling Hospital in its Present Extent Considered, in Several Letters to a Senator by ‘Cato’, London, 1760.

Thale, Mary (ed.), The Autobiography of Francis Place, Cambridge University Press, London, 1972.

Thompson, Edward, The Courtesan, J. Harrison, London, 1765.

Thompson, Edward, The Meretriciad; a Satire on Kitty Fisher and Others, published by the author, London, 1761; rev. 6th edn, as The Meretriciad; a Satire in Verse, C. Moran, London, 1765.

Thoughts on Means of Alleviating the Miseries Attendant upon Common Prostitution, T. Cadell & W. Davies, London, 1799.

A True Account of the Royal Bagnio, with a Discourse of its Virtues, Joseph Hindmarsh, London, 1680, British Library shelfmark 115.i.56.

Trusler, John, Honours of the Table; or, Rules of Behaviour during Meals, published by the author, London, 1788.

Turner, Daniel, Syphilis, a Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease, London, 1717.

 

Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von, London in 1710, trans. and ed. W. H. Quarrell and Margaret Mare, Faber & Faber, London, 1934.

The Uncommon Adventures of Miss Kitty F^****r, Thomas Bailey, London, 1759.

 

Vane, Viscountess Frances, The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, sensational revelations published as chapter 81 of Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, 1751.

Venette, Nicolas, Conjugal Love Reveal’d…in an Essay concerning Human Generation, 7th edn, London, c.1720.

Vertue, George, Notebooks, ed. Katherine A. Esdaile et al., 6 vols., printed for the Walpole Society at Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1930–55.

The Vices of the Cities of London and Westminster…being an Impartial Detection…of the Present Growth of Immorality…in Five Letters, from a Citizen of London, G. Faulkner, Dublin, 1751, British Library shelfmark 8285.de.17.

 

Walker, Captain Charles, The Authentick Memoirs of the Life, Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury (Sarah Priddon), London, 1724.

Walpole, Horace, The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Peter Cunningham, 4 vols., Echo Library, Cirencester, 2006; edn ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols., Clarendon, Oxford, 1903–5.

Ward, Ned, Humours of a Coffee House: A Comedy as it is Daily Acted, printed for Bohee, the coffee-man, and sold at the publishing office in Bearbinder-Lane, London. A weekly publication from 25 June to 6 August 1707.

Ward, Ned, The Insinuating Bawd; and the Repenting Harlot, J. How, London, 1699.

Ward, Ned, The London Spy, ed. Paul Hyland, from 4th edn of 1709, Colleagues Press, East Lansing, 1993.

Ware, Isaac, A Complete Body of Architecture, T. Osborne and J. Shipton, London, 1756; 1768 edn.

Welch, Saunders, A Proposal to Render Effectual a Plan to Remove the Nuisance of Common Prostitutes from the Streets of this Metropolis, London, 1758.

The Wentworth Papers, 1705–1739, Selected from the Private and Family Correspondence of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby, ed. James Cartwright, Wyman, London, 1883.

The Whore’s Rhetorick, London, 1683; facsimile edn, Holland Press, London, 1960.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London, 1792.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, The Wrongs of Woman, London, 1796; edn ed. Gary Kelly, Oxford University Press, London, 1998.

Woodward, Josiah, The Soldier’s Monitor, 7th edn, London, 1776.

Post-1840 Publications

Asleson, Robyn (ed.), Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture, 1776–1812, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003.

 

Barker-Benfield, G. J., The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-century Britain, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992.

Barratt, Thomas James, The Annals of Hampstead, 3 vols., A & C Black, London, 1912.

Baruth, Philip E., Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1998.

Battestin, Martin C. and Ruth R., Henry Fielding: A Life, Routledge, London, 1989.

Bennett, J. A., The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982.

Bleackley, Horace, Ladies Fair and Frail: Sketches of the Demi-monde during the Eighteenth Century, Lane, London, 1925.

Boucé, Paul-Gabriel (ed.), Sexuality in Eighteenth-century Britain, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1982.

Bloch, Ivan, Sexual Life in England Past and Present, trans. William H. Forstern, Arco, London, 1958.

Bristow, Edward J., Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain since 1700, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1977.

Brownlow, John, The History and Design of the Foundling Hospital, Warr, London, 1858.

Buret, F., Syphilis in the Middle Ages and Modern Times, Davis, Philadelphia, 1895.

Burford, E. J., Wits, Wenchers and Wantons: London’s Low-life in Covent Garden in the Eighteenth Century, Hale, London, 1986.

Burford, E. J., and Joy Wotton, Private Vices – Public Virtues: Bawdry in London from Elizabethan Times to the Regency, R. Hale, London, 1995.

Burstein, Dan and Arne J. de Keijzer (eds.), Secrets of Mary Magdalene, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006.

 

Carabelli, Giancarlo, In the Image of Priapus, Duckworth, London, 1996.

Cash, Arthur H., An Essay on Woman by John Wilkes and Thomas Potter: A Reconstruction of a Lost Book, AMS Press, New York, 2000.

Cash, Arthur H., John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006.

Chancellor, E. Beresford, The Annals of Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood, Hutchinson, London, 1930.

Clark, Ronald W., Benjamin Franklin: A Biography, Random House, London, 1983.

Clarke, Norma, Dr Johnson’s Women, Hambledon and London, London, 2000. Colvin, Howard, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1660–1840, J. Murray, London, 1978.

Colvin, Sidney, and Lionel Cust, History of the Society of Dilettanti, London Publishers, London, 1898.

Compston, H. F. B., The Magdalen Hospital: The Story of a Great Charity, S.P.C.K., London, 1917.

Creaton, Heather, The Bibliography of Printed Works of London to 1939, Library Association Publishing, London, 1997.

Crouch, Kimberley, ‘The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?’, chapter in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds.), Gender in Eighteenth-century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, Addison Wesley Longman, London, 1997.

Cruickshank, Dan, and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City, Viking, London, 1990.

Cruickshank, Dan, and Peter Wyld, London: The Art of Georgian Building, The Architectural Press, London, 1975.

 

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