Social History and Economics

Very numerous b&w illustrations from photographs and paintings, bibliography & index, 160 pp, maroon boards in d/w, edges of d/w a little darkened and slightly chipped, otherwise in very good condition, Angus & Robertson 1977

25.2 x 19.9 cm, 690g, ISBN 0 20795 762 2

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

The author was Editor of the Illustrated London News in 1977.  As action photography was in its infancy in Edwardian times, the magazine had to illustrate anything that moved by means of detailed paintings – see the example below, showing wasp-waisted ladies playing football on roller-skates . . . .