London labour and the London poor. With a new introd. by John D. Rosenberg.

Author: Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.

Imprint:New York : Dover Publications, [1968]

Description4 v. : illus., facsims., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

Note:"An unabridged republication of the work as published ... in 1861-1862, to which has been added a new introduction."

Note:Mayhew was a journalist, author, and social reformer, most noted for his multivolume London Labour and the London Poor, which remains a "seminal study of London street life in the middle of the century" and served as the basis for many literary and theatrical representations of the working class. -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (4/2007)

Note:v. 1-3. The London street-folk.--v. 4. Those that will not work [by H. Mayhew and others]

Note:Recommended in Books for College Libraries ; Resources for College Libraries

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