Regency dandies slumming it in a gin palace in St. Giles. Irish labourers, servants and prostitutes drink and dance in a gin shop. Blue Ruin. Tom and Bob tasting Thompson’s Best. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egan’s Life in London.

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