Name/Title
Paved with Gold or, The Romance and Reality of the London Streets / Augustus MayhewEntry/Object ID
2015.7.16Description
480 pages.
First edition in book form. "The descriptions of boy-life in the streets, the habits and customs of donkey-drivers, the peculiarities of tramp-dom and vagrancy, have all resulted from long and patient enquiries among the individuals themselves. They are actual records of the earnings and conditions of these peculiar classes among the uncivilised of London." A series of mini biographies of London's poorest in the second half of the 19th century.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
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English fiction., 1850sBook Details
Author
Augustus MayhewIllustrator
Hablot Knight BrowneEdition
FirstPublisher
Chapman and HallDate Published
1858Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Notes
Bound in green pebbled cloth with blind stamped multiple borders. Elaborate gilt stamping titles and figures to spine. Steel-engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 24 plates.The plate from p.128 is placed as frontispiece. Grey stone endpapers.Notes
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