By Gaslight in Winter: A Victorian Family History through the Magic Lantern

First edition, first impression.  128pp, with plentiful colour and black and white illustrations.  Brown cloth boards, gilt titles to spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed at corners and spine ends else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original glossy dust wrapper, slightly bumped along edges, a little more so on the upper edges, sunned around spine.

The remarkable story of the Riley family, told through the magic lantern slides they created, from the early Victorian period.  The family emerges from the obscure squalor to self-made prosperity. as the ‘largest Magic Lantern Outfitters in the World’, selling their slides to a mass audience eager for beauty, sentiment and edification; and interwoven with the family story is the now forgotten story of the Magic Lantern itself and its slides.