Cassell’s History of the United States

Henry Hudson's voyage, Sir Francis Drake and Captain John Smith bring early American history to life in Cassell's History of...

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Henry Hudson's voyage, Sir Francis Drake and Captain John Smith bring early American history to life in Cassell's History of the United States, written by Edmund Ollier and catalogued around 1880. The illustrated work told its story through scenes, portraits and maps, and the subjects also include Humphrey Gilbert and an encounter between Lord Howe and a congressional committee. These are nineteenth-century interpretations of earlier events, so their costumes, settings and dramatic gestures belong to the Victorian imagination, while the maps set out the geography of the narrative.

Henry Hudson's voyage, Sir Francis Drake and Captain John Smith bring early American history to life in Cassell's History of the United States, written by Edmund Ollier and catalogued around 1880. The illustrated work told its story through scenes, portraits and maps, and the subjects also include Humphrey Gilbert and an encounter between Lord Howe and a congressional committee. These are nineteenth-century interpretations of earlier events, so their costumes, settings and dramatic gestures belong to the Victorian imagination, while the maps set out the geography of the narrative.

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