Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 36 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or tour guide titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes various public buildings in what is likely London, including Parliament's House of Lords (with 162 members), a blue-coat school for citizens' sons, a House of Industry, and a newly constructed prison. The writing employs period typography (long s's, older spelling conventions) typical of late 18th or early 19th-century printing. The descriptions focus on architectural form and practical utility rather than ornamental beauty.
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36 A MONTH’s TOUR and commodious, of an octagon form, and has a pleafant gallery, from whence ‘fpec- tators may hear the debates with much comfort. The houfe of Lords confifts ef an hun- dred and fixty-two members and is more remarkable for its convenience, than beau- ty and elegance. The blue-coat fchool, am academy for the inftruétion of citizens fons, is a very handfome edifice ; butat prefent in an un- finifh’d ftate. The houfe of Induftry is large, ‘and well regulated. - ‘The néw prifon is built ‘upon ah excel lent comicbooks.com