Amazon.com description: Product Description: Excerpt from Street Life in London

Street Life in London, first published in 12 monthly parts beginning in February, 1877, is in the' tradition of such Victorian landmarks in social reporting as Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor. Like that most famous of its predecessors, Street Life was in effect a kind of non-government inspired blue book on social conditions in the metropolis, priced low enough for the very worker whose-(plight it depicted to afford.

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