STRANGE, K H: - THE CLIMBING BOYS

London: Allison & Busby, 1982 . Hardback in black, gilt to spine, in two colour pictorial jacket. Size: 222x144mm. xiv,146 pages illustrated throughout in b/w with chronology and index. Handles like a new book though the jacket is a litle bumped at head. ISBN:0-85031-431-3. Subtitled: a study of sweeps apprentices, 1773-1875. Small boys used in the manual cleaning of chimneys. The social unease, the protest and legislation against this form of child slavery.