Books with author Augustus Mayhew

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition Thus, Chapman 1858. Royal 8vo. viii + 408pp. Frontispiece, illustrated title page and very many full-page plate illustrations by the great Phiz, also illustrator of the works of Charles Dickens, coloured marbled endpapers. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, formly held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corneres and edges. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered ruled tooled and illustrated full racing green calf leather, featuring triple gilt ruling and corner stamp to boards, upper board gently splash stained not detracting. Great shelf presence with 5 gilt ruled raised bands, 4 elablorate gilt scrolled floral embossing and 2 gilt titled leather labels to spine. All edges vey bright gilt, intricate floral bright inner gilt dentells. A lovely volume in great condition, and a wonderful addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike.

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Excerpt from Paved With Gold: Or the Romance and Reality of the Streets of LondonOf course, crime means - unrestrained selfishness, or, in other words, the gratification of desires, regardless of the misery the indul gence may inflict on others. There are many of the leaden-souled who, if crime were treated as a business speculation, - if the chances of profit and loss were as thoroughly weighed as when a merchant studies his ventures, - might be impressed with the folly of the risk, and, swayed by their selfishness, take to honesty as the better policy. As I have said, these wicked of the world have no fear of the law, but they have a full appreciation of personal advantages. Prove to them that the rewards of virtue are by one penny higher than those of vice, and they will, with marvellous rapidity, alter their courses. If they are once coaxed into this passive honesty, the schoolmaster may, with good prospects of success, commence his work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Paved With Gold: Or the Romance and Reality of the Streets of LondonIT has often struck me that if a truthful account were written of the miseries of criminal life, it would, by destroying the fancied ro mance of wickedness, have a quicker effect in checking juvenile de pravity than any moral appeals that could be made to the under standings of the evil-disposed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 2 of 3Once - a long time ago - we got up at five on a cold morning to catch a train (poor sport), and on that. Occasion we visited our early birds opposite to see what they were doing, for our evil nature had often - perhaps in jealousy of their virtue - suggested that our neighbours must either be coiners of bad money or workers at an illicit still. So superhuman did this early rising appear to us, that we naturally concluded that vice alone could stimulate them to such exertions.We remember that our stomach on that cold five o'clock morning was out of order, tetchy, like a too early awakened child, sulky for want of more sleep, and very spiteful; but they of this humble homestead were eating with smacking lips and hungry eyes, and sipping hot coffee greedily, as if the meal were behind time and long wanted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Faces for Fortunes, Vol. 2 of 3Once - a long time ago - we got up at five on a cold morning to catch a train (poor sport), and on that. Occasion we visited our early birds opposite to see what they were doing, for our evil nature had often - perhaps in jealousy of their virtue - suggested that our neighbours must either be coiners of bad money or workers at an illicit still. So superhuman did this early rising appear to us, that we naturally concluded that vice alone could stimulate them to such exertions.We remember that our stomach on that cold five o'clock morning was out of order, tetchy, like a too early awakened child, sulky for want of more sleep, and very spiteful; but they of this humble homestead were eating with smacking lips and hungry eyes, and sipping hot coffee greedily, as if the meal were behind time and long wanted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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