The Adventures of Burnaby Lee: or, The Struggles of a Son and Heir
A three-volume-style Victorian adventure novel by Edward Thomson, published in London in 1852 for the circulating-library readership that consumed serialised crime and inheritance tales. The wood-engraved plates, printed sideways as full-page inserts, stage night-time interiors and roadside scenes—burglars wrestling by a hearth, a hooded figure at a smithy, a funeral cortege of mourners and horses—with heavy cross-hatched shadow and captions set in small capitals down the margin, useful for silhouette figure groups and dark-toned scene-setting.
