Title: The Little World of London; or, Pictures in Little of London Life. By Charles Manby Smith, Author of “The Working Man’s Way in the World,” “Curiosities of London Life,” etc.
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. viii, 408. Signatures: [A]4 B-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd4 A12. Original green cloth. Notes in pencil on half title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present work is written by Charles Manby Smith (1804-1880), who in 1853 had published The Working-man’s Way in the World, Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer (see Bib# 4103483/Fr# 832 in this collection for the original), a highly plausible forgery, which was long treasured as evidence for printing and publishing activities in the mid-century.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103487" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>