Paved with Gold

First Published in 1971. Part of the Library of eight volumes on Victorian Times, this was subtitled as ''an unfashionable novel'' when published. Toward the end of his short but informative preface to Paved With Gold, first published in book form in 1858, Augustus Mayhew states that the descriptions of boy-life in the streets, the habits and customs of donkey-drivers, the peculiarities of trampdo...