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• Imagining the Future City: London 2062 (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Sarah Bell and James Paskins (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Augusta Triumphans: or, The Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe (second edition, published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym; London: Printed for J. Roberts, ca. 1729), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, First Series: Poverty (4 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1904), ed. by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Second Series: Industry (5 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (Classification of the People, Building Trades, Wood and Metal Workers): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Precious Metals, Watches, Instruments, Paper and Printing Trades, Textiles, and Sundry Manufactures): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Dress, Food, Drink, Dealers, Clerks, Locomotion and Labour): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Public, Professional and Domestic Service; Unoccupied Classes; Inmates of Institutions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Comparisons, Survey and Conclusions): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some US access only): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labour of the People in London, Third Series: Religious Influences (7 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), ed. by Charles Booth
  • Volume 1 (London North of the Thames: The Outer Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (London North of the Thames: The Inner Ring): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The City of London and the West End): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Inner South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (South-East and South-West London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Outer South London): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (Summary): multiple formats at archive.org
• Life in West London: A Study and a Contrast, by Arthur Sherwell (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Million-Peopled City: or, One-Half of the People of London Made Known to the Other Half (1853), by John Garwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Seven Curses of London, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Life in the London Streets (1881), by Richard Rowe (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Unsentimental Journeys, or, Byways of the Modern Babylon, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Wilds of London (London: Chatto and Windus, 1874), by James Greenwood, illust. by Alfred Concanen (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• Ragged London in 1861 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The sidelights of London. (Henry Holt and co., 1924), by John Arthur Roberts Cairns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hogarth's London : pictures of the manners of the eighteenth century (Constable and Company, 1909), by Henry B. Wheatley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city companies of London and their good works: a record of their history, charity and treasure (J. M. Dent & co., 1904), by P. H. Ditchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Londres et les ouvriers de Londres; avec une planche hors texte, 23 cartes et graphiques dans le texte. (A. Colin, 1914), by D. Pasquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report and appendix... (printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1884), by Great Britain. London livery companies' commission, Thomas Hare, and Edward Henry Stanley Derby (page images at HathiTrust)
• London life in the xviiith century (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner;, 1925), by M. Dorothy George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1902), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London. Second series: Industry. (AMS Press, 1970), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London's underworld (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1912), by Thomas Holmes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The seven curses of London (S. Rivers, 1869), by James Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life (Griffin, Bohn, 1862), by Henry Mayhew and John Binny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englishmen at home. (Cones, 1888), by Nanda Lal Ghose (page images at HathiTrust)
• In London's shadows (H. Cranton, 1926), by Frank Leonard Jennings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan and co., 1892), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social influences. (Macmillan and co., limited ;, 1902), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• In darkest London (The Macmillan company, 1926), by Ada E Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. ([G. Woodfall and son], 1851), by Henry Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in West London : a study and a contrast (Methuen, 1901), by Arthur Sherwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tricks of the town : being reprints of three eighteenth century tracts (Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1928), by Ralph Straus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The problems of a great city (Remington and co., 1887), by Arnold White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The seven curses of London (Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869), by James Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches in London (Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1840), by James Grant and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dismal England (Walter Scott, 1899), by Robert Blatchford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Londres et les ouvriers de Londres (A. Colin, 1913), by D. Pasquet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In darkest London (Macmillan Co., 1926), by Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journey into a fog. (Sheed and Ward, 1956), by Margareta Hamerschlag Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jipping street; childhood in a London slum (Harper & brothers, 1928), by Kathleen Woodward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life in West London : a study and a contrast (Methuen, 1897), by Arthur Sherwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• London (Chatto & Windus, 1925), by Walter Besant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problems of a great city (Remington and co., 1886), by Arnold White (page images at HathiTrust)
• London pride and London shame (P. S. King & Son, 1910), by Leslie Cope Cornford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across the bridges : or, Life by the South London river-side (E. Arnold, 1911), by Alexander Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Tricks of the town; being reprints of three eighteenth century tracts, with an introduction by Ralph Straus, and eight illustrations. (R. M. McBride & company;, 1928), by Ralph Strauss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Undercurrents overlooked (R. Bentley, 1860), by Wm. Pitt Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1902), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to live in London; or, the metropolitan microscope, and stranger's guide : elucidating the manner ... by which thousands exist in apparent respectability ... Explaining also how this may be effected honestly ... (J. Smith, 1828), by Two citizens of the world (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragged London in 1861. (Smith, Elder and co., 1861), by John Hollingshead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in West London; a study and a contrast (Methuen & Co., 1897), by Arthur Sherwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• London : zami͡etki i vpechatli͡enīi͡a (T.p. Impenatorskoĭ Akademīi Nauk, 1882), by A. Vat͡sin and Gustave Doré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labour and life of the people ... (Williams and Norgate, 1891), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hogarth's London, pictures of the manners of the eighteenth century (Dutton, 1909), by Henry B. Wheatley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low-life deeps : an account of the strange fish to be found there (Chatto and Windus, 1881), by James Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The citizen of nature (W. Benbow, 1824), by Henry Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• London life in the XVIIIth century (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1925), by Mary Dorothy George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little that is good : stories of London and glimpses of English civilization (Cassell, 1917), by Harold Begbie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Across the bridges : or (E. Arnold, 1911), by Alexander Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London. First results of an inquiry based on the 1891 census. Opening address delivered before the Royal Statistical Society, November, 1893. (Royal Statistical Society, 1893), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doings in London; or, Day and night scenes of the frauds, frolics, manners, and depravities of the metropolis. (G. Smeeton, 1828), by George Smeeton and Robert Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une nuit dans la cité de Londres. (Libr. nouvelle, 1854), by Édouard Delessert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tricks of the town: or, Ways and means for getting money. Wherein the various lures, wiles, and artifices, practised by the designing and crafty upon the weak and unwary, are fully exposed. Recommended to the serious perusal of all adventurers and sharers in bubble-undertakings, the pursuers of pennyworths, and bargain-buyers. (Printed for J. Roberts ... and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster., 1732), by John Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastward-ho! (London ; Edinburgh [etc.], 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete English tradesman. (Printed by D. A. Talboys, 1966), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The people of the abyss (The Macmillan company ;, 1903), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and labour of the people in London. Final volume: Notes on social influences and conclusion. (AMS Press, 1970), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1895), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Syllabus of a course of ten lectures on outlines of the sociology of London : an introduction to the study of social science. (University of London, 1908), by Victor Branford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Overcrowding in the city of London : its cure in the present and its prevention in the future (The Author, 1877), by Henry Chevassus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London : second series: Industry (Macmillan & Co., 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Labour and life of the people. (Williams and Norgate, 1889), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The open church for the unchurched : or, how to reach the masses (Revell, 1905), by James E. McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• London labour and the London poor: the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work. (C. Griffin and company, 1861), by Henry Mayhew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people of the abyss. (The Macmillan company ;, 1903), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of the streets (Hodder and Stoughton, 1873), by G. Holden Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journeys through London : or, Byways of modern Babylon (Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1873), by James Greenwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Charity and its work (s.n., in the 19th century), by Richard Chenevix Trench (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London life in the XVIIIth century (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), by M. Dorothy George (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sidelights of London (Hutchinson, 1924), by J. A. R. Cairns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and labour of the people in London (Macmillan, 1903), by Charles Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tricks of the town; being reprints of three eighteenth century tracts, with an introduction by Ralph Straus, and eight illustrations. (R. M. McBride & company ;, 1927), by Ralph Straus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 4, by Henry Mayhew (Gutenberg ebook)
• London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 2, by Henry Mayhew (Gutenberg ebook)
• London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3, by Henry Mayhew (Gutenberg ebook)
• London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1, by Henry Mayhew (Gutenberg ebook)
• The seven curses of London, by James Greenwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Workhouse Characters, and other sketches of the life of the poor., by Margaret Wynne Nevinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Days and Nights in London; Or, Studies in Black and Gray, by J. Ewing Ritchie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money, by John Thomson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Address of divers trades-men, apprentices, and others, to the Right Honourable Sir John Chapman, Kt., Lord Mayor of the city of London ([London : s.n., 1689]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The articles of the charge of the vvardmote enquest: (London : printed by Robert Young, printer to the Honourable Citie of London, [ca. 1635]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The articles of the charge of the vvardmote enquest.: (Printed at London : by Richard Cotes, Printer to the Honourable City of London, [1649]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies in the city of London &c. and of the endeavours for reformation of manners which have been made therein / by Josiah Woodward. (London : Printed by J.D. for the author and sold by Ra. Simpson, 1698), by Josiah Woodward (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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