Originally published in 1851 as a three volume work, it was added to and reissued in 1861. This edition is an abridged edition of the 1861 version published by Spring Books in 1969. 592 pages.

Hardcover book with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in fair condition, clipped inside cover, chips and rips on top and bottom edge. Cover of book is blue cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Top 2" of book cover is faded. Inscription 'To Fran, from Frances, Happy Memories, Christmas 1970' written inside cover. Main body of text is unmarked, no notes, no highlighting, no underlining, no turned down corners, solid binding, good spine, good reference copy.

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"Mayhew's masterpiece, London Labour and the London Poor, has been acknowledged as an important document by social historians of mid-Victorian times. Dickens delved into it and much of its material he used as a background for his novels."

"The editor's intention has been to provide a detailed panorama of London in the 1850s - of that part of London, at least, which underlay the pompous urbanity of its fashionable streets and squares. It is not a pretty picture; far too often it is colored by squalor and misery, yet in spite of every adversity the Cockney's humor inevitably shines through the clouds of human suffering."

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