Excerpt from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald (1927). (Source)

"The biblioklept is to be found in all classes of society from the millionaire to the mudlark."

From “Bibliographical Terminology” in The Bookmart (v. 4, no. 39; August 1886). (Source)

Excerpt from “The Doom of the Air-God,” in Chambers’s Journal; ed. by William and Robert Chambers (No. 724, v. 14; November 13, 1897). (Source)

Excerpts from The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1904). (Source)

Excerpt from London at School: The Story of the School Board, 1870-1904 by Hugh B. Philpott (1904). (Source)

Excerpt from “Dickens’s Waterside Scenes,” from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1903). (Source)

“The Harbour Master, Limehouse.” Figures on the Thames foreshore. 

From Reliques of Old London Upon the Thames and in the Suburbs South of the River by Thomas Robert Way (1899). (Source)

Excerpt from The Strollers by Frederic Stewart Isham (1902). (Source)

Excerpt from The River Singers by William Robson (1881). (Source)

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Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham - A Mudlark (1878)

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