1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1-image
1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1-image
1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1-image
1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1-image
1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1-image

1892 Darkness & Daylight Victorian New York City Illustrated Crime Opium Dens #1

$ 21.12

Publisher: A.D. WORTHINGTON & CO. Subject: 1892 VICTORIAN NEW YORK CITY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION GIFT Year Printed: 1892 Binding: Fine Binding Illustrator: 252 ENGRAVINGS Special Attributes: Illustrated Original/Facsimile: Original Place of Publication: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT Country of Origin: United States Signed: No Author: INSPECTOR THOMAS BYRNES, THOMAS KNOX, HELEN CAMPBELL Topic: Crime Region: North America Language: English

Description

1892 DARKNESS & DAYLIGHT VICTORIAN NEW YORK CITY ILLUSTRATED CRIME OPIUM DENS #1. Published by A.D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, Connecticut. Bright gilt on the spine. Not a pretty picture. A great copy. From 1892, a great copy of the first edition, Darkness and Daylight in New York, by three different authors, Inspector Thomas Byrnes (famous for his Rogue's Gallery of Victorian criminals), Thomas Knox (a major travel and adventure author) and Mrs. Helen Campbell. Published by A.D. Worthington & Co., Hartford, Connecticut. Sized 9x6 inches, 740 pages, with a remarkable 252 engravings. Bright gilt on the spine. This is the best book on New York City in the late Victorian era, complete with opium dens, homeless children fiendish criminals, 10 cents a bed lodging houses, prostitution, safe cracking, Chinese gambling dens, tenements on the Lower East Side. Not a pretty picture. A great copy.

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