Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais. Fourteen essays on being idle, being in love, being hard up and eating - written by a young clerk who had been all four. This was Jerome's first real success, three years before Three Men in a Boat. This edition is bound with 56 plates of painting from 1840–1915, among them works by James Tissot, James McNeill Whistler and Théodore Ralli.