xiii, 443 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, photographic frontispiece portrait of author, illustrated throughout with a mix of plates and cuts from photographs and drawings by Thomas Fogarty. An autobiography of the author who immigrated to the United States from Denmark and made his name as a social reformer, primarily through a series of books humanizing those living in poverty in New York City. His 1890 classic How the Other Half Lives reshaped society's perspective of the working poor.
