The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century

Dedication

To C. H. Simpson, Esq^r. M.C. of the Royal Gardens Vauxhall,—this Print, taken in the Sixty Third year of his age, on the Night of his benefit is, by express permission, most respectfully dedicated by his obliged and humble Servant,—the Publisher.

Note

“A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant and it is very cheap and pleasant going thither.... But to hear the nightingale and the birds, and here fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew’s trump, and here laughing and there fine people walking is mighty divertising.”

—Samuel Pepys.