The Mysteries of the Court of London ... With ... illustrations
G. W. M. Reynolds's serial penny fiction of London high-life scandal, issued by John Dicks in London from 1849 for a mass working-class readership. Wood engravings drop into the double-column text as untamed vignettes without frames: swooning women with loosened hair, frock-coated men gesturing, curtained bedchambers, casement windows in blossom, useful for melodramatic figure groups and vignette-style page layouts.
