LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87). London Labour and the London Poor, London, [n.d. but vol. IV: 1862]. 4 volumes, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books of related interest. (6)

LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87).  London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work. London: Charles Griffin and Company, [vols. I - III n. d., but c.1865]; vol. IV: 1862. 4 volumes, 8vo [vols. I-III (214 x 140mm); Vol: IV: (227 x 150mm)]. Half titles, 93 wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, 4-pages of "Illustrations of Street Art", maps, tables (lightly browned throughout, vol. III with darker brown patch at upper margin). Original pictorial cloth gilt, vols. I-III uniform; vol. IV with uniform spine (titled "Extra Volume") but the boards not uniform with the first three vols. (spines faded, corners rubbed, some fraying, inner hinges weak). Provenance: Binchara Branford (old signature on title of vol. one, with some annotation). With 2 other books of related interest, namely, A. Highmore's Pietas Londinensis: the History, Design, and Present State of the Various Charities in and near London (London, 1810, thick 8vo, 984-pages, modern old-style half calf, FIRST EDITION) and John Thomas Smith's The Cries of London: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times (London, 1839, 4to, portrait and 30 etched plates, contemporary [?or original] cloth-backed boards, spine almost detached, FIRST EDITION). (6)