The Suburbs: Victoria's London, Volume 2

Victoria's London #2

by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald

Facsimile of 1893 edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 296, illus throughout with b&w plates and in text by W. Luker (no inscriptions).

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1834 - 1925) was an Anglo-Irish author and critic, painter and sculptor. He was born in Ireland at Fane Valley, County Louth, educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar and was for a time crown prosecutor on the northeastern circuit.

After moving to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens's magazine, Household Words, and later dramatic critic for the Observer and the Whitehall Review. Among his many writings are numerous biographies and works relating to the history of the theatre.