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REPLY1850

Gwyn's London and Westminster

By W. J., ED.

Under this head § N. inquires, "Will you permit me, through your useful publication, to solicit information of the number and date of the *Literary Gazette* which recalled public attention to this very remarkable fact:" namely, that stated by Mr. Thomas Hunt, in his *Exemplars of Tudor Architecture* (Longmans, 1830), to the effect that the *Literary Gazette* had referred to the work entitled *London and Westminster Improved, by John Gwynn*. London, 1766, 4to., as having "pointed out almost all the designs for the improvement of London which have been *devised* by the civil and military archite…

Topics: Tudor Architecture, Urban Planning, Literary Gazette, Historical Improvements

Locations: London, Westminster, Piccadilly, Coventry Street, Sydney's Alley, Leicester Fields, Cranbourn Alley, Long Acre, Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, Holborn, Strand, Exeter Change, Charing Cross