Introduction: Roundtable on John Tallis’s London Street Views (1838–1840)

Abstract

John Tallis’s London Street Views (1838–1840) offers a striking and a distinctive account of the early Victorian metropolis. This introduction outlines its significance and contextualizes the essays included in this roundtable.

Keywords:

• Tallis
• London street views
• shops
• directories
• maps
• advertising

Notes

1. Penelope Corfield, ‘Giving Directions to the Town: The Early Town Directories’, Urban History Yearbook, xi (1984), 22–34; Gareth Shaw and Allison Tipper, British Directories: A Bibliography and Guide (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989).

2. Peter Jackson, ‘Introduction’, in John Tallis’s London Street Views, ed. by Peter Jackson (London: Nattali and Maurice, 1969), pp. 9–15 (p. 12).

3. Maurice Rickards, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian, ed. and completed by Michael Twyman (New York and London: Routledge and The British Library, 2000), p. 315.

4. Jackson, ‘Introduction’, pp. 12–13.

5. Jackson, ‘Introduction’, p. 13.

6. Jackson, ‘Introduction’, p. 14.

7. Jackson, ‘Introduction’, p.14; Christie’s, ‘Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte’, lot 98. Available at: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/tallis-john-talliss-london-street-views-exhibiting-5388614-details.aspx (accessed 30 April 2017).

8. Elizabeth Grant, ‘John Tallis’s London Street Views’, London Journal, 37.3 (November 2012), 234–51.

9. Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets, and Images in Nineteenth-Century London (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press), pp. 161–88.

10. Alastair Owens, Nigel Jeffries, Karen Wehner, and Rupert Featherby (2010) ‘Fragments of the Modern City: Material Culture and the Rhythms of Everyday Life in Victorian London’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 15.2 (June 2010), 212–25.