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[LONDON LOW-LIFE]. Pair of Titles on London Crimes and Criminals. Including: BEE, John (pseudonym of BADCOCK, John). A Living Picture of London, and Stranger’s Guide Through the Streets of the Metropolis… London: W. Clarke, Sherwood and Co., H. Fores, “1828.” 8vo. With hand-colored frontispiece of people reveling in a brothel. xii, [1]-312 pp. 7 x 4”. With red guide-lines throughout text. Bound in contemporary plain boards. Rebacked in later green cloth, burgundy gilt morocco lettering label on spine (spine sunned, binding worn, front hinge cracked, occasional creasing, soiling in text, catalogue notes and ink notations on ffep, publication date on title-page in manuscript). Bookplate of artist and collector Anne Renier on front pastedown. PRESUMED FIRST EDITION. — Life and Death in London. London: G. Smeeton, [n.d., ca. 1817]. 32mo. Frontispiece and engraved title-page inserted. 64 pp. 4 ½ x 2 ¼”. Bound in later string-tied wrappers with ink manuscript title on front wrapper (wrappers rubbed, soiled, text occasionally foxed and edgeworn). PRESUMED FIRST EDITION.