Regency dandies visit King’s Bench debtors prison, Southwark. Inmates exercise in a yard surrounded by 30ft walls. A trader rents rackets and balls, others bring beer and gin. Kings Bench. Tom and Bob taking a peep at Real Characters in the Abbots Priory. 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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