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Book SynopsisTrade Review'A splendid – and necessary – publication … a great resource' - Iain Sinclair
'[An] exquisite edition of Booth’s maps' - BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking
'Booth’s maps have been beautifully reproduced in [this] new book' - LSE Review of Books
'What Booth’s poverty maps ultimately show is a London where rich and poor lived right next door to each other: in that sense, at least, today’s London is no different' - Guardian
'Compelling – once you start you can’t stop' - BBC Radio London: The Robert Elms Show
'A visual shrine to the Booth survey … the essays are all accomplished and informative and really do help spell out the context in which the maps were produced … these large-scale maps are a delight and it is a joy to have them' - Times Literary Supplement
'Charles Booth’s famous maps of Victorian London offer a chance to reflect on how the city has changed - and how it hasn’t' - Bloomberg
'Exquisite … the book really is a beautiful thing, with a reverence for the source material and playfulness in the design' - World of Interiors
Table of ContentsForward: Mapping the Abyss. • Introduction. • Eastern District & North Eastern District • Housing. • Northern District & North-Western District • Immigration. • East Central District & West Central District • Religion. • Inner Western District & Outer Western District • Trade. • Inner Souther District & South-Western District • Morality. • Outside Southern District & South Eastern District • Leisure.
