The Mysteries of the Court of London ... With ... illustrations
A serialized penny-fiction romance of aristocratic scandal by G. W. M. Reynolds, issued in London by John Dicks in 1849 for a mass working-class readership. The wood engravings sit inside two-column letterpress and stage melodramatic encounters — seductions on sofas, deathbed confidences, hearthside family groups — with heavy drapery, fireplaces and 1840s dress; useful for period costume, figure groupings and interior furnishing detail.
