‎Charles Booth‎
‎Life & Labour of the People in London. North of the Thames: Inner Ring‎

‎London, Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Editor's hardbinding. Octavo, 23 x 15 cm, 246 pp. Front cover stamped with a gilded shield "London 1890 1900", elaborate information and detail on smooth spine: vol. 2 of the "3rd series [on] Religious Influences." Table of contents at the beginning of the book. With a tipped-in "To the reader" word on the title page. Chapters: 1. Whitchapel and St-George's in the east, 2. Bethnal Green, Haggerston and Part of Shoreditch, 3. Hoxton, St. Luke's and Clerkenwell, 4. West Central London, 5. Illustrations. Rare first edition of this volume of Booth's monumental work. Complete with all folding maps. With a library label on the paste down end paper and a library stamp on the free endpaper. A defect on the top of the spine and proximal back cover, some foxing on the pages, edges looking their age. Firm binding, all content here.‎

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‎Booth's research has been instrumental in tracing the history of London by the fin de siècle timeframe. Many of his volumes have become scarce beyond availability. Here is your chance to get this one and complete your Charles Booth collection!‎