GAVARNI IN LONDON: SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAYS BY POPULAR WRITERS.

Edited by Albert R. Smith, with 23 original illustrations by Paul Gavarni,

engraved by Henry Vizetelly.

Originally published 1849.

This edition edited, with annotations and an introductory essay by Stephen Banks.

Lambertville, NJ: The True Bill Press. 248 p.

ISBN-10: 0-9791116-4-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-9791116-4-8

Published July 2009 in hard cover at a price of $45.00

 

"In the tradition of Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth, Gavarni in London pairs his sketches of urban denizens with essays by a dozen ethnographers (including Mayhew's brother, Horace) covering the opera, beggars, the casino, music in the streets and in the drawing room, Covent Garden market, street sweepers, coal-heavers, orange-girls, thieves, 'a plate of heads' (a satire), marriage, the lounger, the Coulisses (written by a woman), the barmaid, vaudeville, fancy balls, the 'potato-can' ('Tatoes hot; penny a piece!'), the parks, and 'foreign gentleman.' These are written to be entertaining and informative, but without the dour character common to Booth's mammoth volumes."

Comtemporary Sociology, July 2010.

 

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