Barren Honour

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by James Tissot, Johannes Bosboom and Peter von Hess. An old family with a name, a mortgaged estate and no money at all; a self-made man who can buy it; and a daughter who is the only asset left. Lawrence gave up the bar after Guy Livingstone made him famous in 1857 and launched a fashion for heroes who break bones and horses — here the muscle is g...