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This is a great little collection of excerpts. They are from two large sources - the 3 (or 4?) volume London Labour and the London Poor, 1851 and The Great World of London 1856.
The chapters cover elements of street life in Victorian London - piemen, street markets, flower girls, bird sellers, and more. The writing is fantastic - so atmospheric and excellently descriptive - examples
Some stalls are crimson with the fire shining through the holes beneath the baked-chestnut stove, others have handsome octahedral lamps, while a few have a candle shining through a sieve; these, with the sparkling ground-glass globes of the tea-dealers' shops, and butchers gaslights streaming and fluttering in the wind, like flags of flame, pour forth such a flood of light, that at a distance the atmosphere immediately above the spot is as lurid as if the pavement were on fire. P12.
As one other reviewer pointed out, this is the only Little Black Classic I have found that has an extensive Source section at the end, giving good detail in where the excerpts came from.
