The maiden tribute of modern babylon : (the report of the "Pall Mall gazette's" secret commission).
Accession number:
PML 136607.2
Published:
[London] : Printed and published by Richard Lambert, [1885]
Description:
16 pages ; 39 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Text of four articles which appeared in the Pall Mall gazette, Monday, July 6, 1885, Tuesday, July 7, 1885, Wednesday, July 8, 1885 and Friday, July 10, 1885; the articles, though unsigned, were acknowledged to be the work of W.T. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall gazette. Stead was convicted of kidnapping and abetting indecent assault for the procuring of Eliza Armstrong ("Lily," see p. 5)--and served three months in prison.
Caption title.
Text in three columns per page.
This edition has "2d." at left and right above title. Between title and text is a 14 line quotation from Lord Shaftesbury at the Mansion House, July 10, 1885.
Publisher's statement from colophon.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Hugh Edmund Chafy; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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