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London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1

  
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[dedication]
  
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  
PREFACE.
  
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LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. — THE STREET-FOLK.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FISH.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
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OF THE STATIONARY STREET-SELLERS OF FISH, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES.
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OF THE STREET-IRISH.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GAME, POULTRY (LIVE AND DEAD), RABBITS, BUTTER, CHEESE, AND EGGS.
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OF THE SELLERS OF TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS (CUT AND IN POTS), ROOTS, SEEDS, AND BRANCHES.
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STREET-SELLERS OF GREEN STUFF.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
  
OF THE FORMER AND PRESENT STREET- PATTERERS.
  
OF THE HABITS, OPINIONS, MORALS, AND RELIGION OF PATTERERS GENERALLY.
  
OF THE PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS OF STREET-LITERATURE.
  
OF LONG SONG-SELLERS.
  
OF RUNNING PATTERERS.
  
EXPERIENCE OF A RUNNING PATTERER.
  
OF THE RECENT EXPERIENCE OF A RUNNING PATTERER.
  
OF THE CHAUNTERS.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A CHAUNTER.
  
OF THE DEATH AND FIRE HUNTERS.
  
OF THE SELLERS OF SECOND EDITIONS.
  
OF THE STANDING PATTERERS.
  
EXPERIENCE OF A STANDING PATTERER.
  
OF POLITICAL LITANIES, DIALOGUES, ETC.
  
OF " COCKS," ETC.
  
OF " STRAWING."
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OF THE SHAM INDECENT STREET-TRADE.
  
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OF RELIGIOUS TRACT SELLERS.
  
OF A BENEFIT SOCIETY OF PATTERERS.
  
OF THE ABODES, TRICKS, MARRIAGE, CHARACTER, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DIFFERENT GRADES OF PATTERERS.
  
OF THE LOW LODGING-HOUSES OF LONDON.
  
OF THE FILTH, DISHONESTY, AND IMMORALITY OF LOW LODGING-HOUSES.
  
OF THE CHILDREN IN LOW LODGING- HOUSES.
  
OF THE LOW LODGING-HOUSES THROUGH- OUT THE COUNTRY.
  
OF THE STREET STATIONERS, AND THE STREET CARD-SELLERS.
  
OF THE SELLER OF THE PENNY SHORT-HAND CARDS.
  
OF THE SELLERS OF RACE CARDS AND LISTS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GELATINE, OF ENGRAVED, AND OF PLAYING CARDS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET- STATIONER.
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OF A "REDUCED" GENTLEWOMAN, AND A "REDUCED" TRADESMAN, AS STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY.
  
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OF THE STREET-SALE OF MEMORANDUM- BOOKS AND ALMANACKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF POCKET-BOOKS AND DIARIES.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF SONGS.
  
OF THE STREET "PINNERS-UP," OR WALL SONG-SELLERS.
  
OF ANCIENT AND MODERN STREET BALLAD MINSTRELSY.
  
OF STREET "BALLADS ON A SUBJECT."
  
OF THE STREET POETS AND AUTHORS.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET AUTHOR, OR POET.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF BROAD-SHEETS.
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OF THE "GALLOWS" LITERATURE OF THE STREETS.
  
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF CONUNDRUMS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF COMIC EXHIBITIONS, MAGICAL DELUSIONS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET SELLERS OF PLAY-BILLS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF PERIODICALS, PAMPHLETS, TRACTS, BOOKS, ETC.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF BACK NUMBERS.
  
OF THE SALE OF WASTE NEWSPAPERS AT BILLINGSGATE.
  
OF THE SALE OF PERIODICALS ON THE STEAM- BOATS AND STEAM-BOAT PIERS.
  
OF THE SALE OF NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, &c., AT THE RAILWAY STATIONS.
  
OF THE STREET BOOKSELLERS.
  
OF THE CHARACTER OF BOOKS OF THE STREET-SALE.
  
OF THE EXPERIENCE OF A STREET BOOK- SELLER.
  
OF STREET BOOK-AUCTIONEERS.
  
OF THE STREET-SALE OF SONG-BOOKS, AND OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF ACCOUNT-BOOKS.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GUIDE-BOOKS, &c.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FINE ARTS.
  
OF STREET ART.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF ENGRAVINGS, ETC., IN UMBRELLAS, ETC.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF PICTURES IN FRAMES.
  
OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER MUSIC.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.
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OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS.
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OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

  
ERRATA.
  
INDEX.
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OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF BROAD-SHEETS.

The broad-sheet known in street-sale in an un-
folded sheet, varying in size, and printed on one
side. The word is frequently used to signify an
account of a murder or execution, but it may
contain an account of a fire, an "awful accident
and great loss of life," a series of conundrums,
as in those called "Nuts to Crack," a comic or
intended comic engraving, with a speech or some
verses, as recently in satire of the Pope and
Cardinal Wiseman (these are sometimes called
"comic exhibitions"), or a "bill of the play."
The "cocks" are more frequently a smaller
size than the broad-sheet.

The sellers of these articles (play-bills ex-
cepted), are of the class I have described as
patterers. The play-bill sellers are very rarely
patterers on other "paper work." Some of
them are on the look-out during the day for a
job in porterage or such like, but they are not
mixed up with any pattering, — and a regular
patterer looks down upon a play-bill seller as a
poor creature, "fit for nothing but play-bills."
I now proceed to describe such of these classes
as have not been previously given.

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