of this Capital. Collected by a Gentleman for his private Amusement. The
Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.
London: Printed for
J. Bew,
1782.
12mo. 120 leaves. The information is arranged in alphabetical order, beginning with Abbot’s Langley, and ending with Wrotham-Park.
At the beginning is a Preface (1 leaf) and a Description of London (13 leaves). At the end is a List of Nobility and 5 pages
of publisher’s advertisement.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Watt IV (under London).
Notes and Queries 11th Series, VIII, pages 16, 92, 315.
Jefferson may have bought this guidebook in London on visiting that city in the Spring of 1786. A copy is entered in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the English price
3/6. Jefferson’s opinion of London is expressed in a letter to John Page, written on May 4, 1786, shortly after his return to
Paris: “
. . . the city of London, tho’ handsomer than Paris, is not so handsome as Philadelphia. their architecture is in the most
wretched stile I ever saw, not meaning to except America where it is bad, nor even Virginia where it is worse than in any
other part of America, which I have seen . . .
”
The Ambulator was first printed in 1774, and reprinted many times. After the second edition the title was changed to
The Ambulator: or, a Pocket Companion . . . and other changes occur both in the titles and the text of the various editions. In this edition the preface is unsigned.
In later editions it is signed by R. Lobb.
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Trusler’s London adviser.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 12, as above.
TRUSLER,
John.
The London Adviser and Guide: containing every Instruction and Information useful and necessary to Persons living in London,
and coming to reside there; in order to enable them to enjoy Security and Tranquillity, and conduct their Domestic Affairs
with Prudence and Economy. Together with an Abstract of all those Laws which regard their Protection against the Frauds, Impositions,
Insults and Accidents to which they are there liable. By the Rev. Dr. Trusler. Useful also to Foreigners. Note, This Work treats fully of every Thing on the above Subejcts that can be thought of.
London: Printed for the Author, No. 14, Red Lion-Street, Clerkenwell; and sold by all Booksellers.
m,d,lxxxvi. [
sic] [
1786.]
First Edition. 12mo. 106 leaves; the leaf before the title has on the recto the Platform of the Royal Exchange, with a woodcut
diagram, and on the verso the Multiplication and the Pence and Shilling Table; on the verso of the last leaf is an advertisement
of
Trusler’s Country Lawyer
, just published; in the copy examined this was followed by two leaves of Alterations and Errors in the latter work.
Lowndes V, 2715.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 679.
Watt II, 917.
This work is entered without price by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue. He ordered a copy, specifying the publisher, Baldwin, in a letter to
John Stockdale, London, dated from Paris, July 1, 1787.
John Trusler, 1735-1820, English divine and medical empiric.
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Austin’s lres from London in 1802. 3.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 123, as above, but reading
Letters.
AUSTIN,
William.
Letters from London: written during the Years 1802 & 1803. By William Austin . . .
Boston: Printed for
W. Pelham, [by
S. Etheridge and
C. Stebbins]
1804.
DA625 .A938
