Mayhew's London; being selections from 'London labour and the London poor' (which was first published in 1851)
Mayhew's London is a selection from Henry Mayhew's 1851 study of London labour and the London poor, a record of street traders, costermongers and the working poor of mid-nineteenth-century London, published for a general readership. Its wood-engraved pictures show street sellers, hawkers and crowded courts, with scenes of Petticoat Lane trade, a costermonger's tangle of goods and a coster boy and girl at a stall, offering a designer dense, rough, documentary textures and period character.
