William Powell Frith : Painting the Victorian Age

xii, 180pp, mostly full colour photographs mainly in-text throughout. Red cloth- covered boards (slightly rounded on corners). Dark green end papers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to. Mylar covered dust jacket. Frith was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of 19th century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their age. His volume tells the story of his life and provides an introduction to his works, magnificently illustrated in full colour.