Albion's Fatal Tree

by Douglas Hay, Calvin Winslow, John Rule et al.

1975 352 pages eng

In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In this new edition of a classic collection of ess…