Sleeve title: Doctor Johnson's London: coffee-houses and climbing boys, medicine, toothpaste and gin, poverty and press-gangs, freakshows and female education.
Dr Johnson's London : life in London, 1740-1770 by Liza Picard. ISBN 0297842188. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2000. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.