This 8 volume set brings together a variety of hard-to-find famous source materials on the world of Regency and Victorian England. Containing a dazzling collection of documents of tourism around England and its capital, the works here include classic illustrations by the likes of Rowlandson and Cruikshank, and reflects the period of transition starting in the eighteenth century, in which the amusements and interests of the common people played a large part.

This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.