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Volume 1 Anon, A fortnights ramble through London, or a complete displayof all the cheats and frauds practised in that great metropolis... (1795);Anon, The tricks of London laid open, being a true caution to both sexes, intown and country (nd); Anon (J Fairburn), The strangers guide; or the Londonsharper detected, being a complete exposure of all the frauds of London (nd);P Colquhoun, Treatise on the commerce and police of the River Thames (1800),A treatise on the police of the metropolis (1806), A treatise on indigence(1806); P Egan, Life in London, or, Day and night scenes of Jerry HawthornEsq. and Corinthian Tom (1821); G Smeeton, Doings in London, or, Day andnight scenes of the frauds, frolics, manners and depravities of themetropolis (1828); J Bee, A Living Picture of London for 1828, and Strangersguide... (1818); Anon (J Duncombe), A peep into the Holy Land, or, Sinks ofLondon laid open, forming a pocket companion for the uninitiated (1835); JGrant, The great metropolis (1838), Sketches in London (1838), Lights andshadows of London Life (1841) Volume 2 H Mayhew, London labour and theLondon poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that willwork, those that cannot work, and those that will not work (1851); WPhillips, The wild tribes of London (1855); G A Sala, Gaslight and daylight,with some London scenes they shine upon (1859); G Godwin, Town swamps andsocial bridges (1859); J Hollingshead, Ragged London in 1861 (1861); TArcher, The pauper, the thief and the convict (1865); J C Parkinson, Placesand people, being studies from life (1869); J Greenwood, Glad news forshady-land (nd); J Greenwood, The seven curses of London (1869), The wilds ofLondon (1874), The amateur casual (1877); R Rowe, Picked up in the streets;or, Struggles for life amongst the London poor (1880); H Mayhew, Londoncharacters (1881); J Greenwood, Mysteries of modern London (1882), Thepoliceman's lantern (1888) Volume 3 A White, The problems of a great city(1886); H J Goldsmid, Dottings of a dosser, being revelations of the innerlife of low London lodging houses (1886); Anon, Indoor paupers, by one ofthem (1885); M Fall (R Dowling), London town: sketches of London life andcharacter (1886); G R Sims, How the poor live (1889), Horrible London (1889);C Booth, Labour and life of the people (1889); G Haw, No room to live. Theplaint of overcrowded London (1900); C F G Masterman, The heart of empire.Discussions of modern city life in England, with an essay on imperialism(1902); G Haw, Britain's homes. A study of the empire's heart disease (1902);J London, The people of the abyss (1903); K Cope Cornford, The canker at theheart. Being studies from the life of the poor (1905); O C Malvery, The soulmarket (1906); G R Sims, The black stain (1907); G R Sims, Off the beatentrack (1911) Volume 4 Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer), The soul of London. Asurvey of a great city (1905); C F G Masterman, From the abyss. Of itsinhabitants by one of them (1905); B Kennedy, Slavery: pictures from thedepths (1905); The hunger line; B Noel, The state of the metropolisconsidered in a letter to the Rt. Hon. And Right Reverend the Lord Bishop ofLondon (1835); T Beames, Rookeries of London (1850); J Garwood, The millionpeopled city (1853); R W Vanderkiste, Notes and narratives of a six years'mission, principally among the dens of London (1854); Volume 5 J EwingRitchie, The night side of London (1857); F Meyrick, The outcast and the poorof London (1858); LNR (Louise Ranyard), The missing link; or, Bible women inthe homes of the London poor (1860); Anon (E Barlee), Our homeless poor(1860); W R Cosens, London dens and mission work among them (1863); JMullens, London and Calcutta, compared in their heathenism, the privilegesand their prospects... (1869); J Salter, The Asiatic in England; sketches ofsixteen years work among orientals (1873); Anon (G Holden Pike), Childrenreclaimed for life. The story of Dr. Barnardo's work in London (1875); J MWeylland, Round the tower, or, The story of the London City Mission (1875); GHolden Pike, Golden Lane. Occult adventures and life pictures (1876) Volume6 J Ewing Ritchie, Days and nights in London; or, Studies in black and grey(1880); Society for Promoting Employment of Additional Curates, Stories andepisodes of Home Mission Work (1881); T C Garland, Leaves from my log oftwenty five years' Christian work among sailors and others in the Port ofLondon (1882); Anon (A Mearns), The bitter cry of outcast London. An inquiryinto the condition of the abject poor (1883); W C Preston, Down in the depthsof outcast London, being facts not recorded in the 'Bitter cry' (nd, 1884);London Cottage Mission, One dinner a week, and Travels in the East (1884); DRice Jones, In the slums. Pages from the note book of a London diocesan Homemissionary (1884); A Mearns, Light and shade. Pictures of London life. Asequel to 'The bitter cry of outcast London (1885); T G Barnardo, Somethingattempted, something done (1889); W H Booth, In darkest England and the wayout (1890); H Walker, East London. Sketches of Christian work and workers(1896); J Salter, The east in the west, or, Work among the Asiatics andAfricans in London (1896); The edition also includes some of Charles Dickens'most important writings on the subject including December Vision, On Dutywith Inspector Field and A Walk in the Workhouse.