Paul Goldman and Simon Cooke, eds. Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875: Spoils of the Lumber Room

Victorian illustration is fertile ground for scholarly research and Reading Victorian Illustration is a rewarding addition to the corpus of previous contributions in the field of illustration studies. It was written and edited by an ‘international panel of distinguished art historians, literary critics, cultural historians and historians of the book’ (3). The nine chapters are not the follow-up to a conference but the outcome of ‘a community of interest and expertise’ (see acknowledgements) o...