Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs. It was previously published by other bona fi

Excerpt from The Old Showmen, and Old London Fairs Popular amusements constitute so important a part of a nation's social history that no excuse need be offered

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

“A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution” (The Circ