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Mary Price; or, the Memoirs of a servant-maid ... Illustrated with fifty-two engravings by F. Gilbert

GILBERT, Frederick - Artist, Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur) · 1852 · John Dicks · 52 pictures

A penny-serial melodrama by G. W. M. Reynolds, published by John Dicks in London in 1852 for a mass working-class readership, with fifty-two wood engravings by Frederick Gilbert. The plates stage domestic and prison interiors in dense cross-hatching: maids in bonnets and aprons, women in wide skirts, top-hatted men confronting each other, barred windows and children clustered at a doorway.

British Library · HMNTS 12623.k.3. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)