First edition, first impression. 222pp, with black and white illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards with, gilt lettering on spine. Maps to endpapers. 8vo. Cloth a little faded on extreme edges, gently pushed in at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated paper dust jacket, a little bumped at extreme edges, slightly shelf worn.
An insightful reconstruction of the lives and occupations of the rogues, vagabonds, petty thieves and cony-catchers of Elizabethan England.
