View of Chancery Lane, London's legal district, 1808. A dangerous narrow lane with precarious overhanging 17th century architecture. Copperplate drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm from his Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the 18th Century, Longman, Hurst, London, 1808. Malcolm (1767-1815) was an American-English topographer and engraver, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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