[129] They include also some (pirated) impressions from the designs of George Cruikshank, which set that irritable genius, as might have been expected, in a fume.
[130] Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, 1st November, 1840.
[131] “Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy.”
[132] He subsequently returned to it for a short time only.
[133] The serial commenced 17th July, 1841.
[134] That this was the case, see Mr. Joseph Hatter’s “With a Show in the North;” see also a remarkable letter of Mr. William Tegg in the Athenæum of 16th October, 1875.
[135] Thackeray in the Quarterly.
[136] I calculate that the minor drawings number about 2,500; if to these we add 638 cartoons, we get a sum total of over 3,100 illustrations for Punch alone. If we say nearly 1,000 for Mr. Surtees’ sporting novels, without taking into account Leech’s other work, we may form some notion of his untiring industry.
[137] MS. Diary of Shirley Brooks (October 31st, 1864).
[138] Compare, for instance, Leech’s Black Mousquetaire in the original edition with Cruikshank’s reproduction of the same subject in the ‘64 edition.