Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 4 1889 Type:art print Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's Colosseum

Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's Colosseum series

Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare were among the artists who agreed to have their portraits taken for this book

It is a sensitive and insightful book that has a great deal to say to Londoners as well as to Britain as a whole

A Gin Shop

Descriptive map of London Poverty Section 4 1889 Type:art print Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's ColosseumSection 4 of Descriptive map of London Poverty, 1889, compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants. The section covers the area between Leverton Place in the North West; Hilldrop Crescent in the North East; Midland Railway Goods Depot in the South East and Clarendon Street in the South West. The districts covered are Kentish Town and Camden Town.