Books by Brian Maidment

Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickens¿s Pickwick Papers.

Dusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists, writers and dramatists. -- .

Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a widevariety of images show the different ways that historical events can berepresented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations whichfurther assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and19th centuries. -- .