Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date, etc
A popular antiquarian history of Hyde Park by John Ashton, published in London by Downey & Co. in 1896 for Victorian readers interested in London's past. Line plates redraw eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scenes — a pistol duel, riders and carriages under park trees, a crowded review — alongside a mermaid-and-acanthus headpiece, giving designers sparse outline crowds, foliage masses and ornament strips.
