The Will and the Way ... Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert
A Victorian melodramatic novel by John Frederick Smith, issued by Bradley & Co. in 1888 with full-page wood engravings by Sir John Gilbert for a popular serial-reading audience. The captioned plates stage domestic interiors, staircases, theatre galleries and jostling street crowds in heavy black shadow, giving designers period costume figures, lamplit rooms and dense hatched crowd groupings.
