A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R-l-s-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. ... original with characters of the most noted members, containing great variety of entertaining discourses, frolicks, and adventures of the principal managers and members, a work of great use and curiosity. Compil'd from the original papers of a gent. who frequented those places upwards of twenty years

All titles

• A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R-l-s-y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. ... original with characters of the most noted members, containing great variety of entertaining discourses, frolicks, and adventures of the principal managers and members, a work of great use and curiosity. Compil'd from the original papers of a gent. who frequented those places upwards of twenty years
• History of the London clubs

People / Organizations

• Edward Ward (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for the author and sold by Joseph Collier at Shakespear's Head in Ludgate-Street, MDCCXLV. [1745]

Publication year

1745

ESTC No.

T152731

Grub Street ID

197418

Description

xii,[2],327[i.e.247],[5]p.,plate ; 12°.

Note

A Gent. = Edward Ward

Titlepage in red

Pp.121-247 misnumbered 201-327

Apparently originally published in two parts in 1709 as 'The history of the London clubs'

Price in square brackets: (Price sew'd Two Shillings, bound 2s. 6d.)

Uncontrolled note

Frontis = pl