The Blind Beggar of Bethnal-Green and Pretty Bessy. [A novel
An illustrated popular novel of 1848, issued in London by Peirce & Hyde, retelling the old ballad of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green for cheap serial readers. Wood-engraved vignettes drop into the text columns: candlelit cottage interiors, drawn swords and pikes, wolves at a doorway, and figures in doublets and full skirts, useful for period costume and dramatic staging.
