Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MAYHEW, HENRY. London Labour and the London Poor. 97 wood-engraved plates after daguerreotypes by Richard Beard and others. Half-titles. 4 volumes. 8vo, original violet cloth blocked in gold and blind, spines faded, ends worn, recased, endpapers renewed. London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1861-62

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first edition, " . . . a seminal study of London street life in the middle of the century . . . required reading for anyone interested in the minutest details of Victorian lower-class life" (ODNB). Wolff 4685; Frizot, A New History of Photography, page 239.