Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Conrad Martens, William Logsdail and Walter Sickert. A boy grows up in a shabby London house, becomes a clerk, and finds his way to writing - Jerome's own life with the names changed. It is the most serious book he wrote and he thought it his best. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates of painting, including works by Gustave Doré, Luke Fildes and Henry William Banks Davis.