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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. To Catch a Sunbeam. Very slight foxing to top edge. Magic lanter slide shows were a popular form of entertainment in the halls during the late nineteenth century. Usually the image projected by the magic lanter illustrated a song, a joke or a story; but Sentiment was what the customers wanted. The popular writers used the Victorians' love of Sentiment to bring home to the audience in the halls the appalling slum conditions in which the poor were living in every large British city. This book is compiled from the lanter slide shows produced by the Victorian charities and temperance socioeties to illustrate such evils as alcohol (drunkenness had become a social disaster of epidemic [proportions among the poor), gambling, and the neglect of children. It is unfashionable today to combine Sentiment with a social message, but in the Victorian era it was not only fashionable but effective. it is impossible to read this book without a tug at the heart strings. The original magic lantern slides reproduced here of remarkable quality. They were studio-produced, using professional models and painted backcloths and sets. The glass slides were then coloured by hand. Illustrated. 143 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 25x15cm. First edition. The combining of sentiment with social message in the lantern slide shows produced by Victorian charities and temperance societies to illustrate the evils of poverty, unemployment, slum living conditions, drunkenness, gambling and neglect of children among the poorer classes. 144pp with numerous monochrome, colour and other illustrations. Hardback / hard cover: black boards, backstrip titled in silver. Top- and fore-edges of text-block faintly, sparsely and streakily foxed. Bookseller's small label at lower inner corner of front pastedown. VERY GOOD copy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket a little rubbed and nicked at upper corners of rear panel. …

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine, green end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 143 printed pages of text with colour, sepia and monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0718118618 ENGLISH HISTORY.…