The London underworld in the Victorian period : authentic first-person accounts by beggars, thieves, and prostitutes
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Subject
Poor-England-London;Working class-England-London;Crime-England-London;Prostitution-England-London;London (England)-Social conditions-19th century
Description
(TIT) London labour and the London poor. Selections.||(GEN) Formerly CIP.||(GEN) "Unabridged republication of 'Prostitution in London' (by Bracebridge Hemyng), 'Thieves and swindlers' (by John Binny), and 'Beggars' (by Andrew Halliday) from volume IV (also known as 'the extra volume' and subtitled, Those that will not work, comprising prostitutes, thieves, swindlers, and beggars) of London labour and London poor, originally published in 1861 by Griffin, Bohn, and Company, London"--T.p. verso.
Biblio Notes
vi, 404 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (pbk)
Number of Copies
1