100 beautiful paintings, with essay and commentaries, showing how Bristol looked in the decade before the coming of photography. From the celebrated collection in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
The book concentrates on the work of Thomas L Rowbotham and Hugh O'Neill, along with Edward Cashin, George W Delamotte, Samuel Jackson and James Johnson. Two of Rowbotham's remarkable panoramas of the city, seen from the surrounding hillsides, are also included.