Ride Theory reviewed The Poor Man's Picture Gallery by Denis Pellerin
Not Pellerin's best, but still very good.
4 stars
I enjoyed the history lessons, but I felt this volume was slightly weak in its source imagery. Many of the paintings are only shown as engravings, as the authors couldn't track down the originals for publication. This is a fairly minor complaint, though. The London Stereoscopic books are consistently interesting, with fantastic quality reproduction on the stereoscopic images. I didn't even mind too much when Brian May stuck his oar in to complain that the animals in the photos were doubtless stuffed (he's famously vegetarian). I've read enough of Pellerin's writing to tell that the book is largely his, and the text here is built on the solid foundation of his always excellent research.
One of the later chapters, about stereo views based on Punch cartoons, really deserves a book of its own.