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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. // An uncommon first edition. In the original cloth binding. This intriguing volume comprises contemporary accounts of the lives of London street sellers in 1851, recorded first by Henry Mayhew and edited for this volume by Stanley Rubinstein. With twenty-five full page illustrations. Collated, complete. Mayhew, one of the co-founders of popular satirical magazine Punch, was an English journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He is well known for his influential survey of the city"s poor in his three-volume "London Labour and the London Poor", of which this book derives information from regarding primarily street sellers. Rubinstein was a British solicitor, novelist and historian. With an introduction on the social and historical context of London life by M. Dorothy George. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with a few handling marks to the boards and mild discolouration to the spine. Minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…