The Wilds of London
( Alfred CONCANEN, illus. ) GREENWOOD, James
With illustrations by Alfred Concanen.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Published: Chatto & Windus, 1874
Stock code: 51713
Price: £100.00
8vo., First Edition, with lithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 11 lithographed plates; original plum cloth, upper board framed and blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut AND PARTIALLY UNOPENED, backstrip chafed at head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With 40pp publisher's catalogue (dated December 1874) bound in at rear, and binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge on rear paste-down. This classic collection of no fewer than 37 essays recounts various social aspects of Victorian London life. VERY SCARCE.