Item #000010677 Paved with Gold or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets; An Unfashionable Novel. Augustus Mayhew.
Paved with Gold or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets; An Unfashionable Novel

Paved with Gold or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets; An Unfashionable Novel

London: Chapman and Hall, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [1], 2-408 pp. Green blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and with twenty-five plates by Phiz, or Hablot K. Browne, Dickens' illustrator. One plate is bound as the frontispiece facing the engraved title page, the plate listed as facing p. 128 in the list of illustrations. NCBEL 951. Wolff 4683b. Mayhew's best-known work, written in-part at the behest of his brother, Henry Mayhew, a dedicated social reformer. Mayhew's book shines a light on the lives of London's economically disadvantaged citizens. A portion of the writing is based on interviews Mayhew and his brother conducted with working-class residents of London. A nice copy of an exposé on the difficulties of life in the industrial cities during the mid-nineteenth century. Very Good. Item #000010677

A small separation between the backstrip and the textblock, endleaves are toned and each plate has a miniscule pencil code on it.

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