Monday, 15 July 2013

Pelican Time:
The Victorian Underworld
by Kellow Chesney
(1970)



(Gustave Doré)

(Illustrated London News, 1852)


(George Cruickshank)

(‘Preparing for an execution at Newgate, 1848’. Mansell Collection.)

(‘A Spree in a Railway Carriage’, about 1850. Mansell Collection.)

(Gustave Doré)


(From ‘The Day’s Doings’, about 1870. Mansell Collection.)

A comprehensive and no doubt endless fascinating & astounding volume, which I am very much looking forward to reading properly when time allows. All illustrations are contemporary to the period, credited as above.

2 comments:

dfordoom said...

An excellent book. Well worth reading.

Bollops said...

Aye, I second that! There's lots of great stuff in there, a lot of it involving excrement.