The mysteries and miseries of the great metropolis
Subtitle: with some adventures in the country, being the disguises and surprises of a New-York journalist
By: By "A.P.," the amateur vagabond ; with illustrations from photographs by Gurney
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1874
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Poor; Crime and criminals
Other titles: Amateur vagabond
Notes: Gift; Seymour Durst; 2012. plate:seymourdurst
Table of contents: title: The purlieus of Water street after dark; title: The amateur beggar; title: After the gambling and panel houses; title: A visit to Davy Jones's locker; title: The bogus doctor; title: The amateur curb-stone singer; title: Life on the Erie canal; title: Night and morning in the Tombs; title: String 'em up; title: The model coster-monger; title: Down in a coal-mine; title: Life in a circus; title: A ride on an engine; title: A night in an underground lodging-house; title: The spirit-medium; title: Painting à la mode; title: The poor prisoner; title: The life of a tramp; title: The beggars' banquet; title: "Been to the mines, sir?" The peep-show man; title: Up and down Mont Blanc.