Bücher von Brian Maidment

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. -- .

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a widevariety of images show the different ways that historical events can berepresented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations whichfurther assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and19th centuries. -- .