337 black and white illustrations from the 16th century through the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras to the 1960s with a sober explanatory text. A firm copy. Artists represented include Kaj olsen, Archille Deveria, Thomas Rowlandson, Peter Fendi, Felicien Rops, Franz von Bayros, Otto Greisner, Otto Bachmann, Max Klinger, et al.