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{{About|the publication|the unrelated television series|London Spy}}
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'''''The London Spy''''' by [[Ned Ward]] (1660/1667 – June 20, 1731) was a [[periodical]] about [[London]] life,<ref name=ACB>{{Cite book |editor-last1=Baugh |editor-first1=Albert C. |title=A literary history of England |date=1972 |publisher=Routledge & K. Paul |location=London |isbn=9780415045865 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3FNCg-w024C&q=The+London+Spy+Ned+Ward&pg=PA817 |page=817 |edition=2nd |accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref> later published as a book.
== References ==▼
''The London Spy'' by Ned Ward. Edited by Kenneth Fenwick (1955). The Folio Society: London.▼
==First person==
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Ward first published the story as a series of 16-page periodicals in 1698–1700,<ref name=ACB /> comprising 18 [[folio]] editions. They were printed as a collection in book form in 1703 by J. How of [[Gracechurch Street]], [[London]], {{convert|1|mi|abbr=on}} from where Ward had his public house.<ref name=TLSJH>{{Cite book |last1=Ward |first1=Ned |title=THE London Spy Compleat, In Eighteen-Parts. [sic]|date=1703 |publisher=J. How |page=v |edition=1st |url=http://grubstreetproject.net/works/T119938?func=title&display=text |accessdate=3 December 2015 }}</ref>
The parts are arranged [[topographic]]ally, the story being told in the first person by the author under the persona of "The London Spy". It concerns his adventures as an ostensibly innocent country gentleman<!-- linked to DB page as the first line is the def--> visiting London, his native-Londoner [[chaperone (social)|chaperone]]-cum-guide, and the adventures that befall them.<ref name=SoMLG>{{cite book |last1=Ogborn |first1=Miles |title=Spaces of modernity: London's geographies, 1680-1780 |date=1998 |publisher=Guilford Press |location=New York, NY [u. a.] |isbn=9781572303652 |page=[https://archive.org/details/spacesofmodernit0000ogbo/page/106 106] |url=https://archive.org/details/spacesofmodernit0000ogbo |url-access=registration |quote=London Spy. |accessdate=3 December 2015}}</ref> They travel about London, visiting inns and tourist attractions and meeting the people who live there. The work depicts vividly the lower classes of the day and how they made ends meet – including [[prostitution]], [[robbery]], [[burglary]] and other felonies. It is a [[ribaldry|ribald]] story, written in part in prose and containing many [[slang]] expressions of the time.
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