Publisher:
London, William Sams:
N.d., 1834. Folio-sized, 14 by 10 inches, or 36 by 25 cm. 55 pp. 17 hand-colored plates. The subject matter of the plates is full of delight and surprise, and the composition and coloring is singularly tasteful and sublime. Highlights are surely the dancers on stilts, the blind man on the bridge, the juggler or the charcoal porters. But this is not an early, Parisian version of "London Poor" or the street life of Paris, for we encounter people from all walks of life, and we are taken to places more private, such as the interior of a swimming school! Perhaps the most exception as...
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