Description480 pages. First edition in book form. "The descriptions of boy-life in the streets, the habits and customs of donkey-drivers, the peculiarities of tramp-dom and vagrancy, have all resulted from long and patient enquiries among the individuals themselves. They are actual records of the earnings and conditions of these peculiar classes among the uncivilised of London." A series of mini biographies of London's poorest in the second half of the 19th century.