George Cruikshank

The "No Popery" or Gordon Riots of 1780 include orgies and fires and Lord George Gordon as a major figure.

Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...

A historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.

In 1833, 1834 and 1836 Agnew introduced bills in the Commons to promote Sunday observance. This work is a reasoned critique of his first bill.

This collectible series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editions of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860's.