Books published by publisher John Camden Hotten

First edition. Greenwood 1831-1926 was an English social critic, concerned about the plight of those in London's workhouses and the working poor. Frontispiece and thirty-six illustrations, tinted and drawn on wood by Ernest Griset, Edward Hodnett notes his "good animal and insect illustrations for each of the three far-fetched and sometimes offensive narratives by James Greenwood." See Hodnett, Five Centuries of English Book Illustration Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1988 , 155-7. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. List of illustrations. Some scuffing at edges. Slipcase worn at edges. 164 pages. later quarter leather, cloth, edges gilt, title, author and decorations gilt-stamped on spine, marbled slipcase. 8vo..