Henry Mayhew; Christopher Hibbert — London Characters and Crooks

London, The Folio Society, 1996 . Cloth. A lovely Folio Society edition of this work, offering a vivid account of London"s criminals, beggars, and working poor in Victorian times, complete with the original slipcase. Bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth, complete with the original slipcase.Illustrated with 20 plates after the original 1851 edition of London Labour and the London Poor.Published by the Folio Society based on the first edition of Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor', which was first published in 1851, as well as drawing information from Peter Quennell's 'Mayhew's London' and 'Mayhew's Characters' and 'London's Underworld&apos.Henry Mayhew (1812–1887) was an English social researcher, journalist, and co-founder of Punch magazine, best known for London Labour and the London Poor, a foundational work in urban sociology and investigative reporting. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, lovely, with only the slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Slipcase, smart, with slight shelf wear and rubbing to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: John Thomson. Near Fine .