London Labour and the London Poor, Paperback/Henry Mayhew

A new selection from Henry Mayhew's pioneering work on the lives of the London poor in Victorian England, with original illustrations, illuminating introduction and additional material. It's a cross-section from his four original volumes, and the introduction gives fascinating insight into the book's influence on his contemporaries such as Dickens and Kingsley. November 2012 marks the bicentenary of Mayhew's birth.