William hogarth, paperback/jenny uglow

she resurrects her hero by restaging the cultural tragicomedy that was Georgian London, with its Grub Street, gin craze, streetwalkers, and stars like Swift and Garrick - all bustle and business, scams and scandals, disorder and death.

Evening Standard.

Jenny Uglow is one of the most talented of contemporary biographers.

Hogarth is her masterpiece.

a wonderful achievement Michael Holroyd.

Paperback edition of this acclaimed biography, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.

Review coverage guaranteed.

190 b/w illus, 8pp colour.