Hell upon earth : or The town in an uproar : occasion'd by the late horrible scenes of forgery, perjury, street-robbery, murder, sodomy, and other shocking impieties : of the encrease of the hempen manufactory and the decrease of the woollen manufactory, shewing that goals and gibbets are become as useful as guards and garisons, and pillories as necessary as p--ns : of peoples being almost under the necessarily of carrying pistols instead of prayer-books to their parish churches : a surprising account of the numbers of people who live by preparing and vending liquors, and of those that die by drinking them : with the vast plenty of diseases and doctors, and the great scarcity of physicians : an account of fox-hunters, peace-hunters, money hunters, men-hunters, whore-hunters, death-hunters, levee-hunters, news-hunters : of the subscribing coffee-mens pretty project for printing their customers prittle prattle : of Lady B-'s necessary house being broke open and robb'd, as published in the coffee-mens paper, with the strange effect it had on a Scotch subscribing coffee-man's wife, who refunded her breakfast upon reading the relation.

The sole edition. From bookseller's description: "A shocking portrayal of London life in the early Georgian era. The anonymous author paints a picture of London in 1729, expanding rapidly in geography and population, as a hellish sea of crime and destitution."