Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Powell Frith and John Bridges. Light essays on cricket, dogs, bookshops, the seaside and the pleasures of doing very little. Lucas wrote over a hundred books, edited Charles Lamb, and was for thirty years the most companionable essayist in England. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates of paintings by James Tissot, James McNeill Whistler, John Everett Millais and others, alongside six illustrations restored and coloured for this edition.