My spiders have clearly been wandering down interesting sideroads on the information super highway … they brought back an image from Wikicommons, and it turns out the whole mid-19th century book is online at the Posner Library. There is lots of text, but the ‘comics’ are really interesting and could spice up a lecture or two, I suspect:

• The comic history of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett. Illustrated by John Leech. .