MAYHEW, HenryMareMagnum
London's Underworld
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 427 pages with occasional illustrations, Contents include: Prostitutes: Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; Bawds; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; THEIVES AND SWINDLERS: Sneaks, Common Thieves, Stealing from Children, Child Stripping, Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles, Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys, Lodgers, Servants, Attic , Garret Theives; Rookery of St. Giles , Pickpockets ,Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters, Spitalfields, Horse-stealing, Dog-stealing, Highway Robbers,Felonies , River Thames, Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys, Smuggling, River Priates, Mudlark, Receivers of Stolen Property, Coining Forgers, Bank, Skittles; Thimble and Pea, The Lock, Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS, Begging-Letter Writers, Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar,Turnpike Sailor, Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars, etc.
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