The London Spy Compleat Title Page
THE
London Spy
Compleat,
In Eighteen-Parts.
By the Author of the Trip to JAMAICA.
LONDON,
Printed and Sold by J. How, at the Seven Stars in Talbot-Court in Grace-Church-street,1703.
The London Spy Compleat (1703)
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