Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887
Title:
London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.
Published / Created:
London : Office, 16, Upper Wellington Street, Strand, 1851[-1861]

London : George Woodfall and Son, Angel Court, Skinner Street, [1851-1861]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3784716
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Gray Social Thought 1593: Publisher's original cloth binding stamped in gilt (at foot of spine): G. Newbold, 310, Strand. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
Subject Terms:
Poor -- England -- London. | Working class -- England -- London. | Crime -- England -- London. | Charities -- England -- London. | Prostitution -- England -- London. | Vernon, A. -- Autograph. | Gray, Bradford H., 1942– -- Ownership. | Children's Aid Society (London, England) -- Bookplate. | Legge Library -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1851-1861.
Contributors:
Mason, Walter George, 1820–1866, engraver. | Whymper, Elijah, active 1848–1863, engraver. | Hine, Henry George, 1811–1895, illustrator. | Anelay, Henry, 1817–1883, illustrator. | Beard, Richard, 1801 or 1802–1885, photographer. | Newbold, George (Publisher), publisher. | George Woodfall and Son, printer. | Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).