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Gipsy Life: being an account of our gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement. [With illustrations

SMITH, George - of Coalville, Leicester · 1880 · Haughton & Co. · 26 pictures

George Smith of Coalville's 1880 social survey of English Gypsies, published in London by Haughton & Co. to argue for schooling and legal regulation of travelling families. Wood-engraved plates show crowded tent interiors, roadside encampments, caravans and ragged children, drawn in dense cross-hatching with strong tonal contrast; useful for figure groups, canvas and wagon forms, and camp-fire light.

British Library · HMNTS 10007.bbb.13. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library