London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the conditi on and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work,

Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.

Verlag: London: 1851., Office,

Beschreibung

and those that will not work. Vols. I-II, books 1-2: the London street-folk. [8], 492 + 396 double-column p.; 51 il.; 23.5 cm. Parts 1-48 [of 63 issued], vol. II without front-matter, ending abruptly at p. 396 [p. 448 in 1861 ed.] in section on sewers and drains -- Imprint on verso of title-page, London: George Woodfall and Son. -- The woodcut illustrations (usually 1 per part) were printed with the text: the first 8 paged consecutively, the remaining 43 outside the pagination. Thus the portrait of Mayhew, called for as frontispiece, faces p. 486 with which it is conjugate. -- Captions of plates (which include the street cry of each seller): London costermonger; The coster girl; The oyster stall; The orange mart (Duke's Place); The Irish street-seller; The wall-flower girl; The groundsell man; Baked potatoe man; Coffee stall; Coster boy and girl "tossing the pieman"; Doctor Bokanky, the street-herbalist; The long-song seller; Illustrations of street art I-IV; Hindoo tract seller; "Kitchen," Fox Court; Book auctioneer; The street-seller of: nutmeg-graters, dog-coll ars, crockerware, grease-removing composition, walking-sticks, rhubarb and spice, combs; The blind boot-lace seller; Mr. Mayhew -- Vol. II: A view in Rosemary-Lane;Scene in Petticoat-Lane; The street dog-seller, birds' nests, crippled bird-seller; The bone-grubber [from here on: sketches by Henning]; The Jew old-clothes man; The mud-lark; The London dustman;The London sweep; Street orderlies; View of a dust yard; London scavenger; The sweeps' home; The able-bodied pauper street-sweeper; The rubbish-carter; The milkmaid's garland; One of the few remaining climbing sweeps; London nightmen; Flushing the sewers; The rat-catchers of the sewers; The sewer-hunter. Fair orig. 1/2 calf. Upper spine torn loose, title-piece chipped. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015400

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Titel: London labour and the London poor; a ...

Verlag: London: 1851., Office,

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: from Daguerreotypes by Beard

Auflage: 1st edition.