Beames Thomas 1815 1864 (1 results)

First Edition. [London] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 264; 17 [1]. With a tissue-guarded title-page vignette and two engraved plates. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and blind tooling to boards and spine. Edges untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Secondary tract: 'Public Baths and Wash-Houses' to rear. Some minor spotting to first/last few leaves and back of first plate. Otherwise internally clean. Gutter visible in some areas, but binding still stable. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Boards lightly toned and marked, heavier toning to spine. Rubbing/wear to joints and extremities. Very good. An examination of the 'rookeries' of London, or the crowded townhouses exploitatively rented to the poor and working class during the 19th century.…