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Published by The Folio Society, London, 2010
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Edited & introduced by Christopher Hibbert. Illustrated with b&w photographs (20 photographic full-page plates, including frontispiece). Includes index. First published by The Folio Society in 1996, this copy is the Fourth printing, 2010. Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Memminger MedienCentrum AG, Memmingen, Germany. Bound in publisher's original olive pictorial boards (full buckram, printed & blocked in black & gilt with a design by David Eccles), brown endpapers, top edge grey. NO SLIPCASE. No dustjacket issued. A FINE very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. xvii + 535pp. Heavy thick book, extra shipping may be required. SB-13.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1996
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. 1st thus. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in Near Fine slipcase. An excellent copy. Sepia-toned photographs taken from John Thomson's Street Life in London published between 1877 and 1878. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 535pages. Between 1851 to 1862 journalist, Henry Mayhew, published his masterpieces 'London Labour and the London Poor' which detailed the realities of East End life in the middle of the nineteenth century, the day to day existence of the poor, the oppressed, the hardworking and the criminal, the pious and lascivious, their sorrows and hopes, the ways they thought and talked and how they passed their days and night.