Bancroft's Almshouses, Mile End, London, 1807, erected for 24 poor men of the Draper's Company by Francis Bancroft. 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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