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London: Stanford's Geographical Establishment, [1889].. Original lithographed map, printed in colours, of East London (37 x 49 cm overall), dissected into 8 sections and mounted onto linen as issued, folding to 21 x 13 cm. Faint toning and occasional faint spotting to linen along folds, generally a very good example. The first of Charles Booth's famous poverty maps of London to be published, in his seminal work ?'Labour and Life of the People, Volume 1: East London'. The areas it covers include Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Mile End Road and Limehouse. When the full survey was published in 1891 this map was dropped for one matching the other three in the set. However this early map has the same features, with the streets colour-coded according to the degree of wealth of the inhabitants, ranging from black ('Very poor, lowest class… Vicious, semi-criminal'), through shades of blue and purple ('Poor', ?'Mixed', ?'Fairly Comfortable'), to red ('Well to do'). Booth's highest class, yellow… Read More

London, Macmillan &: Co., 1889. First edition, folding lithographed map, 36 x 48.5 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 8 panels and laid on linen, tabbed for inclusion in the first volume of Booth’s ‘Labour and Life of the People in London’. Charles Booth’s ‘poverty’ maps were the most distinctive and original aspect of his socio-economic survey of the metropolis. Shaded to show degrees of wealth and class street by street, they have become defining images of late Victorian London. A set of four larger maps covering the whole of the built-up area accompanied the second volume of the series in 1891, but this map of the East End marked the first occasion on which Booth’s revolutionary new methodology was presented to the public in published form. Booth chose to begin his work in the East End as he expected to prove that other social reformers were guilty of exaggeration in claiming that a quarter of Eastenders were living in poverty. The results of his survey… Read More

London,: McMillian & Co.,, 1889.. 365 by 490mm. (14.25 by 19.25 inches).. Lithograph plan, printed in colours, dissected and mounted on linen. The first of Charles Booth's famous poverty maps of London to be published, in his seminal work 'Labour and Life of the People, Volume 1: East London'. The areas it covers include Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Mile End Road and Limehouse. When the full survey was published in 1891 this map was dropped for one matching the other three in the set. However this early map has the same features, with the streets colour-coded according to the degree of wealth of the inhabitants, ranging from black ('Very poor, lowest class... Vicious, semi-criminal'), through shades of blue and purple ('Poor', 'Mixed', 'Fairly Comfortable'), to red ('Well to do'). Booth's highest class, yellow ('Wealthy'), does not appear on this map. Booth (1840-1916), owner of the Booth Shipping Line, acted in response to an 1886 Pall Mall Gazette article that claimed that 25% of Londoners… Read More