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PORTRAITS
OF
CURIOUS CHARACTERS
IN
LONDON, &c. &c.
WITH
DESCRIPTIVE AND ENTERTAINING ANECDOTES.
"There's none but has some fault; and he's the best,
Most perfect he, who's spotted with the least."
LONDON:
PRINTED BY AND FOR W. DARTON, JUN.
58, HOLBORN-HILL.
1814
Contents
- Nathaniel Bentley, Esq.
- Ann Siggs
- Martin Van Butchell
- John Statham
- Anne Longman
- John and Robert Green
- Tom and His Pigeons
- Roger Smith
- George Romondo
- Toby
- Memoirs of the Famous Sir John Dinely, Baronet
- Particulars Concerning the Polite Grocers of the Strand
- Ann Johnson
- Samuel Horsey
- Miss Theodora De Verdion
- Daniel Lambert
- The Death of Mr. Lambert!
- Mary Jones
- A Well-Known Carver
- The Life of John Elwes, Esq.
- The Flying Pye-Man
- Thomas Laugher
- The Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq.
NATHANIEL BENTLEY, Esq.
Known by the Name of Dirty Dick,
Late a Hardware Merchant, in Leadenhall-street.
Mr. Bentley resided at the corner of the avenue leading to the houseformerly the Old Crown Tavern, Leadenhall-street, not far from theEast-India House.
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