John Thomson (1837-1921)

STREET LIFE IN LONDON (1877) an incomplete collection (18/36) Woodburytypes; including Recruiting Sergeants at Westminster, Street Floods in Lambeth, Public Disinfectors, A Convicts Home, The Wall Worker, Covent Garden Labourers, Halfpenny Ices, Black Jack, Cheap Fish of St. Giles, Cast Iron Billy, Workers on the Silent Highway, The Street Fruit Trade, November Effigies, "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel, The Crawlers, Flying Dustmen, Old Furniture, An Independent Shoe Black, each in fine condition, and bound with the original text as issued, with George Sim's "How the Poor Live" with sixty illustrations by Frederick Barnard, 1883, in contemporary cloth binding