Thomas Begbie's Edinburgh: A Mid-Victorian Portrait

Rock, Joe, Patterson, David

Some 65 years after his death, a presentation of 150 photographs by the Edinburgh photographer Thomas Vernon Begbie, which depict both rich and poor areas of Edinburgh during the mid-Victorian period, and reveal much about the life of Begbie himself.

Collectability score

An uncommon photographic record of mid-Victorian Edinburgh reproducing Begbie's remarkably crisp nineteenth-century glass-plate images.

EAN

9780859763370

Publisher

John Donald

Published

1 January 2001

Pages

200

Available copies

• Very good
  £114.99