Regency gang members, pimps and prostitutes at the Finish coffee-house, Covent Garden. The customers include cardsharps, conmen, members of the murderous Peep o'day Boys and Family Men gangs, an Irish billiard hustler, and Samuel Hayward's moll in ermine tippet. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

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