Scene from Old St Paul's by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. Artist: Hablot Knight Browne

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Scene from Old St Paul's by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1855. Song of the Plague: Chowles the coffin maker, top centre, drinking a toast to a long life for the plague so that he will become rich. Frontispiece of Old St Paul's by William Harrison Ainsworth. (London, 1855). First edition, London 1841.

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