London Labour and the London Poor, Complete in Four Volumes: Volume I: London Street Folk (Part I); Volume II: London Street Folk (Part II); Volume III: Cyclopedia of Conditions of Earning; Volume IV: Those That Will Not Work, comprising Prostitues, Thieves, Swindlers & Beggars (by several contributors).

Mayhew, Henry; Introduction by John D. Rosenberg

ISBN 10: 0486219348 / ISBN 13: 9780486219349

Edité par Dover Publications, New York, 1968

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CLASSIC: NEW First Dover Reprint Edition (1968) Later Printing (c. 2010), NEW handsomely-designed-illustrated gloss-laminated card-stock covers, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, NEW perfect bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTNE interiors handsomely presenting the original texts on EXCELLENT acid-free archival paper * Volume I (0-486-21934-8) London Street Folk (Part I): 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.88", 0.84 kg, xvi+495 (510) pp. Volume II (0-486-21935-6) London Street Folk (Part II): 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.98", 0.82 kg, 512 pp. Volume III (0-486-21936-4) London Street Folk (Part III, Concluded): Cyclopedia of Conditions of Earning: 6.50" x 10.0" x 0.82", 0.74 kg, 444 pp. Volume IV (0-486-21937-2) Those That Will Not Work &c: 6.50" x 10.0" x 1.00", 0.86 kg, 504 pp. The Complete 4-Volume Set: 6.50" x 10.0" x 3.68", 3.26 kg, 1970 pp. * ABOUT THIS SET: The classical study (here presented complete in 4 volumes) of the culture of poverty & the criminal classes in 19th century London. This Dover Edition (Orig. 1968) is an unabridged republication of the work as published by Griffin, Bohn, & Company in 1861-1862, to which has been added a new Introduction by John D. Rosenberg. This is the first & possibly the greatest sociological study of the subculture of poverty in 19th-century London. In Mayhew's own words, it is the first book "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves, providing a literal description of their labor, their earnings, their trials, their suffering, in their own 'unvarnished' language." Mayhew invented 'oral history' a century before the term was coined, & was the original explorer of a class--& an aspect of London--with which polite literate society was only familiar through the pages of novels. Mayhew walked 100s of miles of London Streets in the 1840s & 1850s, gathering 1000s of pages of testimony from costermongers & street hawkers, thieves, swindlers & pickpockets, prostitutes & vagrants, rag pickers, street performers, &c. W/ Victorian dedication & energy, he uncovered & codified data on the modern urban proletariat. The vast scope of his undertaking & the minuteness of detail make his work a major repository of information on 19th-century London & its poorer citizens.These compellingly readable 4 volumes have long been a basic source-book for sociologists, historians, criminologists. The men, women, & children who tell their stories in these pages are often all but indistinguishable from the characters of a Dickens novel. As Thackeray wrote, Mayhew provides us w/ "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous & pathetic, so exciting & terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE individually wraps & custom packages ea. of the four volumes of this exceptional volume w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment to all U.S. locations via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge of $14.00. We ship internationally via postal regulation Mandated USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at below-cost rates quoted on request.

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• Titre: London Labour and the London Poor, Complete in Four Volumes: Volume I: London Street Folk (Part I); Volume II: London Street Folk (Part II); Volume III: Cyclopedia of Conditions of Earning; Volume IV: Those That Will Not Work, comprising Prostitues, Thieves, Swindlers & Beggars (by several contributors).
• Éditeur: Dover Publications, New York
• Date de parution: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0486219348
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780486219349
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: Reprint Edition
• Impression: Printing Unstated
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Poids: 3,26 kilogrammes

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Book by Mayhew Henry

Biographie de l'auteur

Henry Mayhew, journalist and social investigator, humorist, dramatist, novelist, and author of works of travel and popular instruction, was born in 1812. The son of a London solicitor, he was educated at Westminster School, from which he eventually ran away. Mayhew then went to sea and traveled to India before entering his father’s office, which, however, he soon quit to embark on a long and prolific literary career. He wrote a very successful farce, The Wandering Minstrel, in 1834, and was one of the cofounders of Punch in 1841. His famous book London Labour and the London Poor began publication in 1849 in The Morning Chronicle and in 1851 was released in a collected, incomplete edition, which was completed in 1861. He was also the author of The Criminal Prisons of London in 1862 and German Life and Manners in 1864. He died in 1887.

Victor E. Neuburg was born in Sussex in 1924. He was a senior lecturer at the University of North London, and a visiting professor at State College, Buffalo, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and Ruhr University, Bochum, as well as the Simon Foster Haven Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. His publications included Popular Education in Eighteenth Century England, Popular Literature, The Batsford Companion to Popular Literature, and A Guide to the Western Front. He died in 1996.