The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1800-1914
Antique Collectors' Club | 1981 | ISBN: 0902028731 | English | 528 pages | PDF | 91.4 MB

The task facing any historian or lexicographer of the nineteenth century is a daunting one. The industry and energy of that century seems to have been almost uncanny and its capacity to record and document every detail of its tirelessness absolutely unprecedented. Lytton Strachey, writing sixty years ago when .nineteenth century studies had only just begun, put the historian's predicament in this way.