Fires in London, with an Account of the London Fire-engine Establishment (from The Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 1, No. 5, September 1838
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pp. 283-298. Stitched, without covers. 12mo. A complete article from the September 1838 issue of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Crisp and clean throughout. An account of the number, causes, and extent of fires in London in the 1830s (following the formation of the London Fire-engine Establishment), with a brief general history of fire-fighting in London by insurance companies and the unions they formed.