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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.

Henry Mayhew · 1851 · Scanned text · Free in the US

519,935 words · about 36 h 25 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1851 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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About this book

Author
Henry Mayhew
Language
English
Published
1851
Length
519,935 words · about 36 h 25 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Book The First. London under 1 min
  2. Preface about 29 h 35 min
  3. II London Labour And The London Poor about 6 h 49 min

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Book The First. London

OFFICE, 16, UPPER WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND.

LONDON :

GEORGE WOOD FALL AND SON,

ANGEL COURT, SKfNNER STREET.

HlSTORtCAU MEDICAL J

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