Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. Georgian London, a fortune stolen by a brother-in-law, and a gentleman reduced to fiddling in a pleasure garden for his bread. Besant knew eighteenth-century London better than almost any novelist of his day and the King's Bench prison here is documented. This edition adds 54 plates after Hogarth, Gainsborough, Munch and others, plus four illustrations restored and coloured for it.
