(Paperback)

In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures.

(Paperback)

This book offers access to the issues and methodological complexities raised by the interpretation of popular graphic images from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

(Hardback)

In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. Draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures.

(Hardback)

Dusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists, writers and dramatists.