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The ancient and modern History and State of London, in its Trade, Commerce, Riches, Population, and eventual contingencies, is a portion of British Literature very much desired; very little, however, has been done since the days of honest Stowe and his industrious commentator Strype, to embellish or improve so interesting a subject; except that the indefatigable Pennant furnished a clue which no one had the courage to follow,though the Public evinced due liberality to his undertaking. The generality of readers are therefore as much in want of an elegantly embellished and authentic History and Description of the Metropolis and its Vicinity, as though such production had never made its appear

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